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Tree ferns – the mamaku as an example

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Tree ferns use spores to colonise sites.

Tree ferns use spores to colonise sites far from the mother tree where new plants can thrive.

Image acknowledgements: Tree fern, gerald.w, CC BY 2.5; Sporangia, Phil Bendle, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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