Photo 2184580, (c) Zack, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Zack

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Uploaded by sudachi sudachi
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sudachi

Date

August 1, 2009 12:42 PM JST

Description

ヤマソテツ

The first time I saw this I was confused by the strange shape of the leaf, thinking it was possibly eaten and the only thing remaining was the vesicles. Turns out the strange structure is the "sporophyll" or "spore-leaf" which releases the spores ofthe fern.

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