What does a red fern look like?

Answer 1

* Ferns belong to a group of plants called featherplants or pteridophytes, along with club mosses and horsetails. * Featherplants are among the world's most ancient plants, found as fossils in rocks 400 million years old. * Coal is made largely of fossilized featherplants of the Carboniferous Period 360 - 286 million years ago. * There are now 10,000 species of fern living in damp, shady places around the world. * Some ferns are tiny, with mossy leaves just 1 cm long. * Rare tropical tree ferns can grow up to 25m tall. * Fern leaves are called fronds. When new they are curled up like a shepherd's crook, but they gradually uncurl over time. * Coal is made from dead plants such as ferns. Over 200 million years ago, the ferns would have become buried underground and very gradually turned to cool under the immense pressure of the Earth. * Ferns grow into new plants not from seeds but from spores in two stages. * First spores are made in sacs called sporangia. These are the brown spots on the underside of the fronds. From these spores spread out. Some settle in suitable places. * Second spores develop into a tiny heart-shaped plant called a prothallus that makes male and female cells. When bathed in rain, the male cells swim to the female cells, fertilizing them. A new root and stem then grow into a proper fern frond and the tiny prothallus dies. * Ferns produce a small heart-shaped gametophyte that lives independently from the sporophyte. * Ferns have true roots, stems and leaves. * Fern leaves have circinate vernation. * Ferns produce haploid spores in sporangia. * Ferns produce clusters of sporangia on the underside of the leaf. * Ferns have motile sperm produced in antheridia. * Ferns have non-motile eggs produced in an archegonium. * Ferns produce an underground rhizome that produces fern fronds. * Some ferns are edible.

Answer 2

Actually, while there is no such known plant on Earth, the Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) does have a rare variant (native to the Ozarks) with reddish fronds (probably a genetic mutation). It appears likely that this is the plant that is referred to. According to ancient Native American legend, only an Angel can plant a Red Fern (ordinary human beings can't); and wherever it grows, the entire place is sacred. But there is no Red Fern known in the scientific community per se.

Oh, by the way: the four-leaf clover (the clover having four leaves, rather than the usual three) is caused by a mutation, or altered gene; perhaps it is the same here as well.

Answer 3

There are about 12,000 different species of ferns.

Ferns do not have seeds or plants and instead they reproduce by spores.

In the book, Where the Red Fern Grows, there is mentioned a rare red fern. There is no actual known fern in existence.

Answer 4

some interesting facts about ferns is the live all over the world except antartica.They also live in different habitats.The red in ferns is limited and temporary

hope i helped out!:)

Answer 5

I'm Pretty Sure They Are I Mean C'mon They're On Where The Red Fern Grows I Mean Like Why Wouldn't They Be.

Answer 6

It's an Indian legend that only angel can plant a red fern. And if a red fern is planted, it is sacred. Hoped it helped! :) ;D

Answer 7

RED

Answer 8

No.