Well Spotted @sukhasanasister. First surprise is my 100% upvote for your comment.
The second surprise will come on Sunday. After I've recovered from my trek today. 😊
These ferns can be easily propagated from the spores under the leaves. So they say. I've never tried but would like to.
I'm not sure, just thought of it now. Maybe these ferns can absorb moisture from the air and therefore they might even prevent a bathroom from gathering mould. Will have to find out now.
TA for the treat!They'd have to do an awful lot of slurping for that positive outcome to happen! (Leaves actually exude moisture and drink only with their roots. Leaves are solar panels).
Pleasure @sukhasanasister. Have just sent you a gratitude gift of 1 SBD for reading 'The Enchanted Forest.'
After reading a few articles on how to take care of Bird's Nest Ferns indoors, if I were a Bird's Nest Fern I'd prefer to take my chances of gathering moisture in my centre from any rainwater or moisture that trickles down my fronds, along with all the little leaves and the occasional bird dropping to make my food.
I think you are right that they wouldn't absorb moisture through the fronds but interestingly the fronds play a role in how they obtain water. 🦋
Leaves are such handy apparati! Every hair, dent, wrinkle or furrow serves a purpose. Where did they go to architecture school?....
Blown away by what spotting a turkey can do for my steem account! Gobbles of thanks for the competition. I've been looking out for tiny wall ferns in my northern European climes ever since I read your post (they are endangered apparently).
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I've been taking photographs of our resident Brush Turkey. Not the most photographic of creatures. Has a kind of jerky movement whenever I click the shutter. his claim to fame is that he's quite prehistoric but everyone with a nice suburban garden wants to shoo him away.
These are such beautiful ferns. Look so healthy. Would be a shame if they vanished from the face of this earth. 🦋