蕨 - bracken, fernbrake

type of iron sword with curved pommel (Nara period)

Japanese painted fern (Athyrium niponicum); pictum

freshly budded bracken

furled bracken fronds

water sprite (Ceratopteris thalictroides); Indian fern; water fern; Oriental waterfern; water hornfern

Dryopteris lacera (species of wood fern)

kamraj (Helminthostachys zeylanica); tunjuk-langit; di wu gong

bracken