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Rocky shore line ecosystem zonation of species.  Some of the animals and pants featured include whelks, mussels, bladderwrack, star fish, top shells, periwinkles, crabs, branacles, and anenomes.  Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

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

Pen and ink illustration of Bladderwrack Fucus vesiculosis showing a large area of plant

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

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

Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera with big clumps of dates