Ferns occur in great abundance in New Zealand – there are nearly 200 native species alone occurring everywhere from the coast through to the country’s alpine regions. Then there are the fern allies – including club-mosses and fork-ferns that have an even longer fossil history than ferns. |
New Zealand![]() Bracken Fern (20) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Tree Ferns (14) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() NZ's Christmas Decoration (30) Janice ![]() |
New Zealand![]() Historical Maori Bracken Uses (32) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Emerging Beauty (38) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Silver Fern Aging Gracefully (10) Janice ![]() |
New Zealand![]() Time for a Fern Again (28) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Waipoua Forest (17) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Old and Grey (30) Janice ![]() |
New Zealand![]() Sporangia on Silver (34) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Young Opening Frond (38) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Ponga Trunk (30) Janice ![]() |
New Zealand![]() Another NZ Fern (40) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Kiokio (i) (18) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Kiokio (ii) (11) Janice ![]() |
New Zealand![]() Blowing in the Wind (34) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() The Beauty of Ferns (26) Janice ![]() | New Zealand![]() Koru (66) Janice ![]() |
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