Ferns

Resurrection fern Polypodium polypodioides pen and ink completed for Montserrat National Trust

Resurrection fern Pleopeltis or Polypodium polypodioides completed for Montserrat National Trust

Dry stone wall with Maidenhair spleenwort, Wall rue, and Soft Shield fern growing; all of which are Leptosporangiate ferns.  Polypoidy ferns growing on a distant tree behind.

Moonwort Botrychium lunaria with sporangia, spore producing stems.

Fern spore of an Ophioglossum species, showing the distinctive tri-partite shape and textured spore surface.

Adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum showing spore bearing “tongue”

Monstera and Calthea ferns growing together.  For a packaging job for Fernway.

Bracken Pteridium aquilinum showing leaf fronds, roots, and inrolled leaf margins with sori

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

Royal fern Osmunda regalis with both frond types

Parsley fern Cryptogramma crispa showing both forms of the frond

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

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

Vascular vs non vasular plants diagram including information on the cross section of a flower and a detail of a moss sporophyte and gametophyte and cross sections on a cellular level of a moss and a harebell stem

Stone trough planted with a variety of ferns as a garden feature, cut to white

Ink drawing showing different trees, vines, and lianas in a tropical African forest such as in Ghana

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]