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Water horsetail Equisetum fluviatile pencil illustration showing flower and leaf

Royal fern Osmunda regalis with both frond types

Scaly male fern Dryopteris affinis plant, individual frond, and spore detail

Parsley fern Cryptogramma crispa showing both forms of the frond

Oak bark Quercus robur study

Oak polypore fungus piptoporus quercinus bracket fungus growing on the side of an oak tree

Oak Quercus robur pen and ink tree shape without leaves

Maidenhair spleenwort Asplenuum trichomanes tuft of this small and pretty fern found growing in a churchyard wall

Marsh horsetail Equisetum palustre small pencil illustration

Lichen Usnea subfloridana growing on a twig

Harts tongue fern Phyllitis scolopendrium one leaf showing spores

Hard fern Blechnum spicant with basal fronds and the paler erect fronds at the centre of the plnat, roots included

Landscape showing an ancient oak woodland with oak trees which were last pollarded years ago, the under storey is carpeted with bluebells, the trees are hung with lichen, and there are moths in the foreground settled on a patch of wild spring flowers