Ferns: Dryopteris and Cyrtomium

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    Here are two ferns I have never noticed before, maybe will only ever see here. I don't know if they are rare or are in neighbourhood landscaping. The first is
    Dryopteris sieboldii, Siebold's wood fern, with very large leaves, leaflets being longer than my hand span. Wood ferns are not all Dryopteris, but they all seem to be in the family Dryopteridaceae. I don't think the Dryopteridoideae subfamily plants are supposed to have separate fertile fronds, but the ones here with sori had thinner leaflets. In the second photo, the leaf at the top had sori; the ones below it did not.
    Dryopteris-sieboldii_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_134612.jpg Dryopteris-sieboldii_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_134741.jpg Dryopteris-sieboldii_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_134730.jpg Dryopteris-sieboldii_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_134657.jpg Dryopteris-sieboldii_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_134820.jpg

    Cyrtomium macrophyllum is also in the Dryoptericaceae family, in the same subfamily. It wasn't anywhere near the previous one, but it called out to me for some reason. Big leaflets, I guess, or a little distinctive, some possibility of recognizing it again.
    Cyrtomium-macrophyllum_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_152922.jpg Cyrtomium-macrophyllum_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_152938.jpg Cyrtomium-macrophyllum_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_153002.jpg Cyrtomium-macrophyllum_UBCBG_Cutler_20200917_153002-c.jpg
     

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