Corine Oosterlee is a botanist and photographer and she offers guided Botanical Walks and other activities around plants and vegetation in nature in Perigord. Do you want to know more? On www.baladebotanique.fr you can find more information. For Corine's photography see www.corineoosterlee.com. Both websites also in English.
Enjoy!
July 12, 2011
Limestone fern
This small unobtrusive fern grows at the foot of a slope, near the edge of a wood. Its fronds of a beautiful clear green emerge from a long underground rhizome. It is a Limestone fern (Gymnocarpium robertianum).
You have really to bend down to see its finely incised fronds. If you turn a frond (carefully, it is fragile!) you notice the sores, masses of spores, in regular rows on its backside.