Fern Hybrid (IMAGE)

Duke University

Fern Hybrid

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Found on a forest floor in the French Pyrenees, this shin-high fern is the offspring of two distantly related groups of plants that split into separate lineages some 60 million years ago.

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Photo courtesy of Harry Roskam.

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