Botany, Antique Print, Chromolithograph, Psteridium aquilinum, Eagle Fern, Bracken Fern, Lindman

Antique colored lithograph (chromolithograph) after Swedish botanist and botanial artist Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856-1928) for his folio "Bilder ur nordens Flora" (Pictures of Northern Flora). He was inspired by military botanical artist Johan Wilhelm Palmstuch who embarked on a scientific project to produce a series of impressive copper engravings, 1802–1819."Svensk Botanik" (Swedish Botany) was the first of its kind in Sweden.

The botanical is an example of a pinnate-pinnatfid structure with one large central frond showing front, a detail of a pinnae rear in the top left, detail of the pinnae edge where the sporangia howse the individual spores, a section of the rhizome and how the stems sprout from them, and finally a cross-section of a stem showing the vascular interior..

Published Stockholm by Wahlstrom & Widstrand, 1901-1905.

Condition = Excellent (no discoloration/tears)

Page size = 16.5 x 24.2 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch)

Pteridium aquilinum (Common name Eagle fern or Bracken)

Bracken or as it is known in Northern England, Moorland Scrub, occurs in temperate and subtropical regions. The extreme lightness of its spores has facilitated its global distribution.The genus typically known for its large, coarse ferns that produce spores and small plants that produce eggs and sperm. Brackens are noted for their large, highly divided leaves. They are found on most continents, their typical habitat is Moorland ( It is known as Moorland Scrub in the North of England). The genus probably has the widest distribution of any fern in the world.

Like other ferns, brackens do not have seeds or fruits, and immature fronds are known as fiddleheads, the word bracken is of Old Norse (Viking) origin meaning fern.