Fiddleheads Magnets

A few fiddleheads I spotted and harvested on my nature walk.

!http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.22487555.0136/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg!:http://www.redbubble.com/people/laurieminor/works/11940136-fiddlehead-ferns Featured in: - _Challenge Winner_, (tie vote) Visual Texture challenge - Low Angle Photography - This & That - Food For Thought - Absolute Clarity Here's info found on Wikipedia: "Fiddleheads or Fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds of a young fern,harvested for use as a vegetable. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond (circinate vernation). As fiddleheads are harvested early in the season before the frond has opened and reached its full height, they are cut fairly close to the ground. Fiddleheads have antioxidant activity, are a source of omega-3 an...

fern fiddleheads in winter

Curled ferns in the spring sunlight grow into leafy fronds. Often called Fiddleheads.