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Now, as the days get shorter and cooler, ferns follow the deciduous trees, lose their green and turn brown. Leaves on ferns are called fronds and they grow from underground stems known as rhizomes.

and fern leaves. “I’ve noticed that my clients like slender-looking flora, recently,” she said. “People like the shape of lichen, a type of fungi that lives on rocks and trees, too.