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Definition of Flowering fern

Flowering fern
Flowering Flow"er*ing, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

Meaning of Flowering fern from wikipedia

- makes up 80% of living fern diversity, did not appear and diversify until the Cretaceous, contemporaneous with the rise of flowering plants that came to...
- of fern. Central Europe is rife with stories of a flowering fern blooming only on Midsummer night or at Christmas. And in Poland, the flowering fern usually...
- bogs and on the banks of streams. The species is sometimes known as flowering fern due to the appearance of its fertile fronds.[citation needed] The name...
- is prized as a local delicacy Zenmai or flowering fern, Osmunda ****onica, found in East Asia Vegetable fern, Athyrium esculentum, found throughout Asia...
- groups of extinct gymnosperms, particularly seed ferns, have been proposed as the ancestors of flowering plants but there is no continuous fossil evidence...
- Incarvillea delavayi, the so‑called hardy gloxinia or flowering fern, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae, native to western Sichuan...
- color, the ferns look as if they are in flower, and so this genus is sometimes called the "flowering ferns". Osmunda, the type genus of the fern order, Osmundales...
- ****onica (syn. Osmunda nipponica Makino), also called Asian royal fern or fiddlehead, is a fern in the genus Osmunda native to east Asia, including ****an, China...
- Anemia mexicana, the Mexican flowering fern, is a fern species in the genus Anemia, sometimes called flowering ferns. It is native to much of Mexico and...
- fern flower is a magic flower in Polish folklore. As ferns are non-flowering plants, this technically refers to "fertile fronds". Certain true ferns,...