male-fern

Updated: June 23, 2025

Beyond it, again, is a round-headed tree, looking like a huge Portugal laurel, covered with racemes of purple buds. And what are those at the top of the brow, rising out of the rich green scrub? Verily, again, we are in the Tropics. They are palms, doubtless, some thirty feet high each, with here and there a young one springing up like a gigantic crown of male-fern.

Charles Kingsley - At Last