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nancyo
Joined: 6/20/2012
Location: Giddings
Posts: 2
Posted: Jun/20/2012 7:59 AM PST

What are those balls in the soil of some ferns?
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Joined: 9/12/2006
Location: Northern, NJ
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Posted: Jun/20/2012 8:24 AM PST

They are bulbils.
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Joined: 5/07/2010
Location: Manistee,MI
Posts: 850
Posted: Jun/20/2012 8:44 AM PST

Is this what you're talking about ?? They're part of the root system of the fern.

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nancyo
Joined: 6/20/2012
Location: Giddings
Posts: 2
Posted: Jun/20/2012 8:59 AM PST

Yes that's what I speak of! Are they capable of reproducing another fern or what is their function?
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Joined: 7/28/2010
Location: Vacaville, CA
Posts: 1287
Posted: Jun/20/2012 7:14 PM PST

Yeah! I call them 'fern eggs'....mine are from my mom's garden (-_^)
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