Walking up Battle Road in Hastings the other day I came across a brick wall with many ferns in the mortar. There was the one above, maidenhair spleenwort, as well as hart's-tongue and black spleenwort.
Ferns like this are not all that common in walls beside busy roads in urban areas and I suspect there is something very fern-friendly in the mortar of this particular wall. Often it is that the cement is lime mortar rather than modern cement, but this wall does not really look old enough.
Anyway, long may they flourish.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)
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2 comments:
I always knew this beautiful fern as Asplenium trichomanes: are you sure about genus?
Congratulations: your work and your kind of attention about seemingly modest manifestations of nature is very interesting and really admirable.
(I have similar looking attitudes, but not so organized)
You are quite right Massimo - it should be asplenium - must be getting old!
Thankyou for your kind remarks.
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