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Description: | Seed ferns came in all shapes and sizes, from shrubs, scrambling creepers and trees that grew up to 10m tall. The branching patterns and shapes of their leaves are used to tell different varieties apart. They were an important plant in the Carboniferous coal forests and usually grew on raised banks of river-delta channels. They were the earliest seed bearing plants. Male pollen was shed into the air and carried by the wind to the large female seeds. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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