Spring unrolling
Cinnamon emergence
Fiddleheads, so named because they look like the tuning pegs of violins and other stringed instruments in that family, are the universal designation for newly emerging fern leaves. The incipient plants have spent the winter underground—well, the species that shed their fronds every autumn—and when the weather finally begins to warm, the ferns put forth a crop of tightly rolled leaves that then gradually uncoil. Some fiddleheads are bare while others, like this Cinnamon Fern, are covered in a kind of insulation. Whatever their appearance, the incipient ferns are a signature sign of mid-spring—and an indication that there'll be no back-sliding,
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