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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Pockets of this tree-fern savanna extend to the summit along with low Vaccinium woodland. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The smooth tree-fern is the tallest tree-fern in the world, occasionally reaching heights of 20 m tall. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2005)
It did not take me long to find the pool, close against the blackened stump of a tree-fern. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Over one pool hung a dead tree-fern, and a bay from it ran into a hole of the rock. ❋ Unknown (2005)
There were many prostrate trees, which nature has entirely covered with choice ferns, specially the rough stem of the tree-fern. ❋ 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. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
But everywhere the rocks, trees, and soil are covered and crowded with the most exquisite ferns and mosses, from the great tree-fern, whose bright fronds light up the darker foliage, to the lovely maiden-hair and graceful selaginellas which are mirrored in pools of sparkling water. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
We have a tree-fern which grows as high as twenty feet. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On adjacent flats and slopes grow survivals from one of the most ancient of all plants — a Cycad, that botanical paradox, combining some of the characteristics of the lie palm and of the pine with the appearance of a tree-fern, while being of distinctive order, which flourished during the age when the Iguanodon and the ❋ Unknown (2003)
The form of the orange-tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the tree-fern, the banana, will remain clear and separate; but the thousand beauties which unite these into one perfect scene must fade away: yet they will leave, like a tale heard in childhood, a picture full of indistinct, but most beautiful figures. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Ned gloomy and thoughtful by becoming the mother of a piccaninny, about a span-and-a-half long, the colour of a tan shoe, with whitish soles to its feet, and hands and fingers so crumpled and soft, and of such tender hue, that they might have been the unfolding frond of a tree-fern. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The path, when we get down again into the tree-fern region, is inches deep in mud and water, and several places where we have a drop of five feet or so over lumps of rock are worse work going down than we found them going up, especially when we have to drop down on to amomum stems. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Like fronds of tree-fern, like great corals or sea-fans, these great palmated plates of bone lift themselves from his head, grand, useless, clumsy. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was at first supposed that the plants of the carboniferous times were bamboos, palms, and gigantic cactuses, such as are now found in tropical regions, but a more careful examination of them shows that, with the exception of the tree-fern now found in the tropics, they differ from all existing trees. ❋ Earl Of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair (N/A)
During a trip to Maamloo, a beautifully situated village on the brink of the table-land, we discovered abundance of the tree-fern _Alsophila_ ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
