Fern fiddlehead, tropical cloudforest, Costa Rica

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A fiddlehead is the young unfurled frond leaf of a fern This fiddlehead was growing in cloud forest in Monteverde Costa Rica

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Size: 5150px × 3447px
Photo credit: © MShieldsPhotos / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: anatomy, cloud, cloudforest, costa, crozier, fern, fiddle, fiddlehead, filicophyta, flora, forest, frond, head, leaf, monteverde, plant, pteridophyta, pteridophyte, reserve, rica, rican, seedless, structure, tropical, vascular