DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The leaves of ferns are often called fronds. Fronds are usually composed of a leafy blade and petiole (leaf stalk). Leaf shape, size, texture and degree of complexity vary considerably from species to species. A fern leaf or frond.

Detailed explanation-2: -: a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions. : a thallus or thalloid shoot (as of a lichen or seaweed) resembling a leaf. fronded.

Detailed explanation-3: -Originally, this term was used to refer to the leaf-like structures of a fern. The fronds of a fern are distinct from ordinary plant leaves because they bear spores, since ferns do not flower. A fern frond arises from the rhizome of the plant, developing initially as a tightly coiled fiddlehead which slowly unfurls.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frond. The leaf of a fern. These are called fronds to distinguish them from the leaves of flowering plants. Leaves in flowering plants are purely concerned with photosynthesis whereas fern fronds have both a photosynthetic function and a reproductive function.