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The Black Ferns is New Zealand's national women's rugby team. The name comes from the use of the colour black and the silver fern as New Zealand sporting symbols. For example, the All Blacks is New Zealand's famous men's rugby team, while the Silver Ferns is the national women's netball team. General phase play in rugby union. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ... Headline text {{Taxobox | color = lightgreen | name = Silver Fern | status = Conservation status: Secure | image = Silver Fern. ... The range of sports played in New Zealand reflect to a large extent its British colonial heritage. ... First international Australia 3 - 22 New Zealand (15 August 1903) Largest win New Zealand 145 - 17 Japan (4 June 1995) Worst defeat Australia 28 - 7 New Zealand (28 August 1999) World Cup Appearances 5 (First in 1987) Best result Champions, 1987 The international rugby union team of New Zealand are... The Silver Ferns are the national netball team of New Zealand. ... Netball is a team sport similar to and derived from basketball, and was originally known as womens basketball. While basically unknown in its homeland, it is the pre-eminent womens team sport (both as a spectator and participant sport) in Australia and New Zealand and is popular in...


The Black Ferns are the current Women's Rugby World Cup champions. They have won three consecutive World Cups, winning the first IRB-sponsored Cup in 1998, the 2002 World Cup in Barcelona, and the 2006 World Cup, defeating England 25-17 on September 17. The Black Ferns have participated in most WRWC events since its inauguration in 1991, only missing the 1994 championship in Scotland. They also won the Canada Cup in 1996, 2000, and 2005. The Womens Rugby World Cup is the premier international competition in Rugby union for women. ... IRB is a TLA for International Rugby Board Irish Republican Brotherhood Institutional Review Board This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Canada Cup refers to several types of professional sporting events held in Canada: It is also the previous name of the World Cup of Golf. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Farah Palmer, who had been captain since 1997, lost her captaincy in 2005 due to a shoulder injury. She was honoured as International Women's (Rugby) Personality of the Year at the IRB Awards in 2005.


In October 2005, when the England women's rugby team again toured New Zealand, Rochelle Martin, then vice-captain, led the Black Ferns in the first test match against England. In that match she got injured. Veteran flyhalf Anna Richards was named captain in the second match against England. The Black Ferns won the two-match Test series, 2-0.


For the 5th Women's Rugby World Cup in Canada, Farah Palmer fought her way back into the Black Ferns team and made it. She will again lead her team at the highest stage of Women's Rugby.


While rugby is the most popular spectator game in New Zealand, the Black Ferns have suffered in the past from similar problems to any women's sport—under-funding, lack of support and lack of publicity. The NZRFU and IRB have been criticised for not doing more to promote women's rugby, although support is beginning to build in those organisations. The NZRFU started funding the Black Ferns in 1995, thus giving a great boost to their game. In more recent times, the team's profile has risen greatly at a grassroots level, due in great part to their string of successes, and it is increasingly seen to be a national team on the same basis as any other. The New Zealand Rugby Football Union is the governing body of rugby union in New Zealand. ...


External links

  • http://www.allblacks.com/index.cfm?layout=showBlackFerns&id=12 - Black Ferns team page at AllBlacks.com
  • http://www.rwcwomens.com/homepage.htm - 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup
  • http://uk.geocities.com/nzwomensrugby/ - a fan site about New Zealand Women's Rugby
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Rugby union in New Zealand
Federation: New Zealand Rugby Football Union
National teams: All Blacks • Junior All Blacks • New Zealand sevens team • New Zealand Māori • Black Ferns
International Competitions: Rugby World Cup • Tri Nations • Super 14 • Pacific Five Nations • Bledisloe Cup • Churchill Cup • Rugby World Cup Sevens
Super 14 teams: Blues • Chiefs • Crusaders • Highlanders • Hurricanes
Domestic Competitions: Air New Zealand Cup • Heartland Championship • Ranfurly Shield • Hanan Shield
Air New Zealand Cup teams: Auckland • Bay of Plenty • Canterbury • Counties Manukau • Hawke's Bay • Manawatu • North Harbour • Northland • Otago • Southland • Taranaki • Tasman • Waikato • Wellington
Heartland Championship teams: Buller • East Coast • Horowhenua-Kapiti • King Country • Mid Canterbury • North Otago • Poverty Bay • South Canterbury • Thames Valley • Wairarapa Bush • Wanganui • West Coast

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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Ferns - Herb Profile and Information (6761 words)
The Black Spleenwort is a small fern growing in rather circular masses, either on walls, where its fronds are only from 3 to 6 inches long, or on shady hedgebanks, where its oblong-triangular, evergreen fronds may attain as much as 20 inches in length.
The Hart's Tongue, a fern of common growth in England in shady copses and on moist banks and walls, is the Lingua cervina of the old apothecaries, and its name refers to the shape of its fronds.
This Fern was employed by the Ancients as a purgative: it is the Oak Fern of the older herbalists - not that of the modern botanists, Polypodium dryopteris.
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