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8 unusual facts about Fern


FERN

Some of FERN's most outstanding coordination and facilitation work is the organisation of NGO meetings on various issues, such as the annual Forest Movement Europe meeting.

This movement changed its name into Forest Movement Europe in 1994 after linking up with the newly formed Taiga Rescue Network (1992) and widening its focus to all forests, including Russia.

Hence, in March 1995 Saskia Ozinga (formerly working for Friends of the Earth in the Netherlands) and Sian Pettman (formerly working for the European Commission) created the organisation FERN with a mandate to monitor EU activities in relation to forests, inform and educate the Forest Movement Europe about these activities and facilitate joint advocacy work towards the different EU institutions.

Fern, Buckinghamshire

Significant geological formations have been noted in the sides of the pit and this is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Mount Toby

Fern and orchid species are particularly prolific on the mountain; forty-two of forty-five possible native fern species grow there as do rare orchids such as the Showy Lady Slipper and the Ram’s Head Lady Slipper.

Pomona Island

Forested areas of Fiordland National Park generally are dominated by Nothofagus and podocarp species with understory of numerous ferns and shrubs; Crown Fern, Blechnum discolor is an example of chief understory species.

Saskia Ozinga

She is the facilitator of the Forest Movement Europe (FME) and the co-founder of the NGO FERN, of which she is currently the campaigns coordinator.

In March 1995 Saskia co-founded, together with Sian Pettman, the organisation FERN with a mandate to monitor EU activities in relation to forests, inform and educate the Forest Movement Europe about these activities and facilitate joint advocacy work towards the different EU institutions.


Acrostichum aureum

It can grow in full sun or in deep shade and it has been found that the mangrove Rhizophora mucronata can regenerate in dense stands of the fern.

Adiantum philippense

Adiantum philippense, (Goyali Lota, Kalijhant in Bengali: গয়ালী লতা, Hamsapadi, Kitamata, Tripadika in Sanskrit, Jarigida in Kannada, Hamsapadi in Hindi ) is a fern in the genus Adiantum.

Anzali Lagoon

More recently the surface of the lagoon has become gradually overgrown with aquatic macrophytes, primarily the non-native water-fern, Azolla filiculoides, and this has caused increased eutrophication, creating large areas of the lagoon where there is insufficient dissolved oxygen for fish to survive.

Bandaara Kilhi

Bounded by dense vegetations of mainly ferns, Screwpine, tropical almond, cheese fruit, Banana trees, coconut palms and taro fields plus Mango trees as well to an extent, among the creatures which inhabit the lakeside are the Common Moorhen which is a bird exclusively found in Fuvahmulah only in the Maldivian archipelago and Maldivian White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus maldivus) which is an endemic species of the Maldives.

Banksia pellaeifolia

As there was already a plant named Banksia blechnifolia, Mast and Thiele had to choose a new specific epithet; their choice, "pellaeifolia", is from Pellaea, a genus of ferns with pinnate leaves, and the Latin folium ("leaf"), in reference to the species' fern-like leaves.

C. elongata

Cyathea elongata, a tree fern species native to Venezuela and Colombia

C. kermadecensis

Cyathea kermadecensis, a tree fern species endemic to Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands

C. tenuis

Cystopteris tenuis, the Mackay's bladder fern or Mackay's fragile fern, a fern species found in the northeastern United States

Charles Cameron Shute

Charles Cameron Shute was the eldest son of Thomas Deane Shute of Fern Hill, Isle of Wight, and Bramshaw, Hampshire and his wife Charlotte née Cameron, daughter of General Neville Cameron of the East India Company army.

Christian Luerssen

Beitrag zur kenntniss der farnflora der Viti-, Samoa-, Tonga- und Ellice's inseln, 1871 - Contribution to the knowledge of ferns of Viti Levu, Samoa, Tonga and the Ellice Islands.

D. antarctica

Dicksonia antarctica, the soft tree fern, man fern or Tasmanian tree fern, an evergreen tree fern species native to parts of Australia

Dandenong High School

Stage 2 of the building program consisted of the constructing of the remaining 4 Houses: Fern, Hakea, Grevillea and Eucalyptus, as well as the construction of a Commonwealth-funded Language Centre on the Ann Street Site, costing $2 million.

Diplazium molokaiense

This fern grows in the moist riparian forests on the slopes of two mountains on Maui, one of which is the volcano Haleakalā.

East Pyramids

What vegetation there is on these rocks is dominated by Poa, Pig Face and ferns.

Ebbor Gorge

The valley of the main gorge is humid and provides ideal conditions for fungi and ferns.

Eric Flynn

Flynn was the father of actors Jerome Flynn and Daniel Flynn whom he had with his first wife Fern; the former best known for appearing in Soldier Soldier and the latter known for his character in The Bill.

Ferdinand Paul Wirtgen

His work consisted of studies in the fields of floristics, phytogeography and plant systematics, of which he conducted systematic investigations of ferns and also plants from the genera Verbascum, Rubus, Salix, Rumex, Mentha, Rosa, Carex and Epilobium.

Fern Persons

On July 27, 1999, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley officially declared "Fern Persons Day" to mark her 89th birthday.

Fern Shubert

Fern Shubert was one of the candidates for the Republican gubernatorial nomination to challenge Governor Mike Easley in the 2004 election.

Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand

To mark the transition to independence, the New Zealand Government requested that the garland of laurels on the Governor’s flag should be replaced by one of fern leaves, the fern leaf was already recognised as one of New Zealand's national symbols.

Geri Jewell

In 1980, she performed at the 2nd Annual Media Access Awards, when she was introduced to Norman Lear by producer, Fern Field.

Gilboa Fossil Forest

William Stein, associate professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University and colleagues at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom have found an intact tree more than 26 feet tall with a system of frond-like, but leafless branches resulting in a superficially tree fern or palm tree-like form.

Gilboa, New York

In 2004, the tops and fronds of the trees were discovered and, in 2007, the fern-like trees, named Wattieza, were pronounced the oldest known trees on earth.

Hermann Theodor Geyler

Among the species he described is Onychiopsis elongata, a fossil fern of the Dicksoniaceae family, from the Jurassic period.

James Parton

With Ellen (and previously Fanny Fern), he raised Ethel, the daughter of Grace Eldrege (Fanny Fern's daughter) and writer Mortimer Thomson (also known as Philander Doesticks).

Joseph J. Fern

During and after his tenure, Fern became one of the most beloved political figures in the Territory of Hawaii.

Lands of Threepwood

Cotton cloth or linen was originally bleached by repeatedly steeping it in an alkaline solution or lye derived from ash tree or fern ashes, called 'bucking'.

Los Alcornocales Natural Park

Forests and smaller wooded areas within the park are comprised mainly by cork oaks (Quercus suber), Portuguese oaks (Quercus faginea), Pyrenean oaks (Quercus pyrenaica), olive trees (Olea europaea), alders (Alnus glutinosa and Alnus incana incana), holly trees (Ilex aquifolium), bay laurels (Laurus nobilis), rhododendrons (Rhododendron ponticum), ferns, mosses, and lichens.

Maisnières

There are water features and an English garden and also a flower collection including ferns, narcissus and poppies.

Masafuera Rayadito

The species' natural habitat is humid montane scrub, dominated by tree ferns (Dicksonia externa) and ferns (Lophosoria quadripinnata) between 800–1300 m above sea level (though they will descend lower during the austral winter).

Mataji Krishna Priya

Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, Kala Venkata Rao, Chandrasekhar Rao (Bandhita) and other devotees bought a spacious Bunglow set in a four acre compound called "Fern Vale" from an English couple named "Hogshaws".

Mike Bonifer

Born on December 31, 1953, in Jasper, Indiana, Bonifer grew up on a farm near Ireland, Indiana, the oldest of six children of Bob and Fern (Henke) Bonifer.

Orto Botanico Friulano

The garden was established in 1951 and contains collections of irises, local flora, Ericaceae, succulents, ferns, arid and desert plants, tropical trees, and Platanus orientalis.

P. americana

Pilularia americana, the American pillwort, an aquatic fern species

Pycnoloma

For the synonym of the fern genus, see Selliguea.

Robert Fern Lyons

Robert Fern Lyons (July 1, 1856 – December 29, 1926) was a politician in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Silver fern flag

The first suggestion that a silver fern flag be adopted as New Zealand's official flag came in 1998 from Cultural Affairs Minister Marie Hasler of the National Party.

However, four New Zealand athletes competed under the flag of New Zealand's Olympic committee, which was a black flag with a white silver fern imposed over the Olympic Rings.

Stegosaurus

Vegetation varied from river-lining forests of conifers, tree ferns, and ferns (gallery forests), to fern savannas with occasional trees such as the Araucaria-like conifer Brachyphyllum.

Sword fern

Nephrolepis exaltata, commonly cultivated as a houseplant, including the Boston fern

The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland

The text was a scientific description of all the varieties of Ferns found in the British Isles.

The Jackie Gleason Show

Gleason also occasionally portrayed Stanley R. Sogg, a late-night movie pitchman for Mother Fletcher's products ("No-Cal Chicken Fat"), similar to the later Art Fern character played by Johnny Carson in his "Tea Time Movie" skits on The Tonight Show.

Windlesham

In 1911 the village was due to the heath, see Surrey Heath, described as almost entirely modern, in much the same way as Wentworth, Surrey's landscape was tamed approximately at the turn of the 20th century, being naturally heather, gorse and fern and ideal for grass and laid out evergreen trees.

Woodsia ilvensis

Oblong Woodsia came under severe threat from Victorian fern collectors in the mid 19th century in Scotland, especially in the Moffat Hills.

Zoid

The mature spermatozoids of the fern Asplenium onopteris are 8 to 8.5 micrometers in length and contain 50 flagella.


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