Can
you identify what's in this photo?
Each Wednesday morning
on Camp Lutherlyn's Facebook page
the Lutherlyn Environmental
Education Program posts a photo.
Readers
have all morning and afternoon
to
make their best guess about what the photo is.
Around
6 pm LEEP provides the answer and a brief explanation.
Each
week's What is it Wednesday post
will
also be posted on the Nature of Lutherlyn blog,
after it is posted on Facebook,
sometimes
with additional bonus information.
In
addition to bringing you current editions of What is it Wednesday
on the
Nature of Lutherlyn blog,
we
will be reposting old editions,
creating
a What is it Wednesday archive.
This photo was posted as a What is it Wednesday on
December 26, 2018.
And
the answer is....
Christmas ferns are one of the few ferns that remain green all winter, including at Christmas-time. They have thick leathery fronds, sugars and proteins that act as “anti-freeze,” and after the first frost bend close to the ground where it is warmer.
The individual divisions of the frond, or pinnae, are said to look like Santa’s sleigh, or perhaps elf boots.
Merry Christmas from LEEP! May your holidays be full of delight in God’s creation and incarnation.
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