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Project Noah Nature School
Spotted on Sep 18, 2011
Submitted on Dec 28, 2011
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that's a fertile frond showing the small roundish pale covers (indusia) which protect the growing bags of spores. These bags (sporangia) are now ripe and peeping out from underneath, to form the brown rings around the indusia
Also know as Pakong Gubat in the Philippines