tree-fern

Following the arrival of the British explorer James Cook in 1778-79, Christian influences started in or around 1823, with churches and schools built and the introduction of cattle, goat, and pulu (tree-fern product) harvesting.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, United States 2009

Like many of the endemic species, the Norfolk Island palm (Rhopalostylis baueri) and the smooth tree-fern (Cyathea brownii) are still common within the Norfolk Island National Park but are now rare elsewhere on the islands.

Norfolk Island subtropical forests 2008

Pockets of this tree-fern savanna extend to the summit along with low Vaccinium woodland.

Seram rain forests 2008

The smooth tree-fern is the tallest tree-fern in the world, occasionally reaching heights of 20 m tall.

Norfolk Island subtropical forests 2008

During the day Herbert discovered several new specimens not before met with in the island, such as the tree-fern, with its leaves spread out like the waters of a fountain, locust-trees, on the long pods of which the onagers browsed greedily, and which supplied a sweet pulp of excellent flavor.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Over one pool hung a dead tree-fern, and a bay from it ran into a hole of the rock.

Prester John 2005

It did not take me long to find the pool, close against the blackened stump of a tree-fern.

Prester John 2005

During the day Herbert discovered several new specimens not before met with in the island, such as the tree-fern, with its leaves spread out like the waters of a fountain, locust-trees, on the long pods of which the onagers browsed greedily, and which supplied a sweet pulp of excellent flavor.

The Mysterious Island 2005

There were many prostrate trees, which nature has entirely covered with choice ferns, specially the rough stem of the tree-fern.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

When the man found that we were going to stay all night he bestirred himself, dragged some of the things to one side and put down a shake-down of pulu (the silky covering of the fronds of one species of tree-fern), with a sheet over it, and a gay quilt of orange and red cotton.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004