EVERYDAY SCIENCE

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: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -ˈfränd. : 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -A compound leaf-that is, a leaf with many fine and deep divisions-is a frond, such as on ferns and palm trees. Although commonly referring to the leafy part of a fern or palm, the noun frond can also refer to anything that has a similar shape to a palm frond or fern frond.

Detailed explanation-5: -The fronds are the leaves of the fern. There is usually a stalk (the stipe) with a flat blade (the lamina), often divided into segments. The frond may be simple and undivided or it may be divided into a number of divisions (called pinnae).