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    • Hen and chickens ferns.
    Rights: Arthur Chapman Published 24 September 2010 Size: 470 KB Referencing Hub media

    Hen and chickens ferns get their name from the little bulbils, the chickens, produced on the upper surface of the frond of the parent plant, the mother hen.

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      A tale of two ferns

      The hen and chickens fern (mouku or manamana) is a common New Zealand native fern. It had been observed that the cultivated hen and chickens fern grown and sold in garden centres around New ...

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