And so to the rose garden, then an asparagus bed whose fleshy fingers had grown into tall fronds.

Sterile fronds to 160 cm tall.

Sterile fronds to 100 cm tall.

Most members of this order are small, but some members of the tropical genus Acrostichum, in the Ceratopteridaceae, are immense, with fronds 3.5 meters (twelve feet) tall.

The dark green fronds of this fern grow to 50-180 cm (i.e. nearly 4 feet) tall, in a tight clump spreading out radially from a round base.

The tall fronds seemed to form a guard of honour for His Excellency as he entered the church.

After reaching the tall thin fronds of "seaweed," they had no difficulty in finding the track again.

About a quarter of the area was covered by tall brown fronds which Gibson recognised at once.

Specimens are known with fronds six feet (1.8 meters) tall.

I came presently into a hollow basin bristling with tall, brown, dry fronds about its edge, and I sat down under these to rest and cool.