what is silver fern. Define in about 50 -100 lines
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It’s a scaly tree fern, with a trunk up to around 12m tall. There are two principal kinds of tree ferns – scaly and hairy.
It is widespread and common in the North Island. In the South Island, it occurs in the very north and sparingly along the east coast, but is absent from the west and south.
A similar and seemingly closely related species, Cyathea australis, occurs in Australia and Norfolk Island.
Its frond undersides are also green rather than white/silver. Additionally, its reproductive structures are naked rather than demurely covered as in the silver fern.
The New Zealand women's rugby team is known as the Black Ferns, a composite of All Blacks and Silver Ferns.
Although they wear a silver fern on their jersey, the name Black Ferns recalls the black tree fern, or mamaku, which is New Zealand’s tallest tree fern.
The 'silver fern' Cyathea dealbata – ponga in te reo Māori – is a species of tree fern only found in New Zealand. Although they are called 'silver ferns', the undersides of the fronds are usually white; only in some northern populations are they actually 'silver'.
Ferns are seedless vascular plants of humid tropics and temperate areas.They constitute the largest living group of primitive vascular plants with over 10,000 species. Plant body is a sporophyte. The stem is underground rhizome in most of the ferns. Roots are adventitious.Leaves are large and are called fronds.