Fern Images

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Black Ferns	Black Tree Ferns	Fern leaves	Silver Fern
Hound's Tongue	Fern	Fiordland Fern	Fern
Ferns	Hound's Tongue	Epiphytes	Ferns
Fern branch	Fern leaves	Fern branch	Black Ferns

New Zealand's native bush is well known for the proliferation and variety of native ferns. There are about 190 species of native ferns found in New Zealand. Most grow in damp, shady places, such as gullies and valleys.

Ferns vary in size from those only a few centimeters high to 24 m (80 ft). The Black Tree Fern the most common fern, is the tallest fern tree in the world of which the tallest of this species reside in the Coromandel region.

Some tree ferns have woody trunks without branches, topped with clusters of feathery leaves, or fronds. Most ferns, however, have no trunks, and fronds grow directly from a short underground stem.

The most famous fern is the Silver fern as it is a New New Zealand emblem and is a symbol that is used on the shirts of the All Blacks rugby team and also the Silver Ferns netball team.

The Koru shape another New Zealand emblem is an unfurling fern frond and represents the unfolding of new life.

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