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| Green Spleenwort on Hutton Roof "With dangling Dreadlocks" I have been able to find three separate populations of this rare fern on Hutton Roof Common. Whilst writing a couple of little poems, I just couldnt help but realize how they reminded me in particular of "dangling dreadlocks" and reggae music. The 2nd poem was written when I found one area where they were about seven separate plants within a area of about 15 square yards diameter and this for now I have called "the viride motherland". |
"The green spleenwort dangles like dreadlocks,
It's home, a dark wet nook, crevice or cleft,
Or fissure, crack, cranny or slit or split,
Half expecting reggae - but settle for it's rock"
12th September 2013.
"I looked for it for years - Asplenium viride,
for years I found - Asplenium trichomanes,
but at last I've found viride's motherland,
with dangling "dreadlocks" all around"
14th September 2013.