Ferns Inquiry. On 22 October2005 a government-commissioned report compiled by a former Irish Supreme Court judge delivered a damning indictment of the handling of clerical sex abuse in the Irish diocese of Ferns.
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In northern climates brackenfern is frequently found on uplands and side slopes, since it is susceptible to spring frost damage.
Brackenfern is grown commercially for use as a food and herbal remedy in Canada, the United States, Siberia, China, Japan, and Brazil and is often listed as an edible wild plant.
Brackenfern is a potential source of insecticides and it has potential as a biofuel.
In ferns, it is often referred to as a frond, but this is because of the historical division between people who study ferns and people who study seedplants, rather than because of differences in structure.
Ferns of the genusAzolla, which are very small, floating plants that do not look like ferns, called mosquitofern, are used as a biological fertilizer in the rice paddies of southeast Asia, taking advantage of their ability to fix nitrogen from the air into compounds that can then be used by other plants.
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