Botany Photo of the Day Woodwardia fimbriata

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Today’s photograph is unrepresentative of the size of giant chain fern, whose leaves may reach a length of 1.7m (or 5.5 feet). Perhaps surprising to some local readers, this tropicalesque fern species is native from British Columbia south to Mexico’s Baja California. Here’s a photo by Pete Veilleux@Flickr (aka eastbaywilds) with a person for scale: […]

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