SplasheryPlayground
Fern, standing in a box with a red wall and a green wall.

Please do not tap the glass.

Fern

Ferns are some of the oldest plants on Earth: they grew long before the dinosaurs, and they still grow in shady woods today.

Open in the PlaygroundHow to play

The facts

Shelf
Nature
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

How to play, in the Playground

Tap it to unroll the fiddleheads into new fronds. Hands-on: brush the fronds; they sway back.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Unfurl the fiddleheadsTap
UnfurlButton
SeedList4 choices1

About it

Ferns are some of the oldest plants on Earth: they grew long before the dinosaurs, and they still grow in shady woods today. They have no flowers or seeds. Instead they spread by spores, tiny specks that grow in brown dots under their leaves, which are called fronds.

Each new frond starts as a tight coil called a fiddlehead, because it looks like the curled end of a violin. Tap it and the two fiddleheads in the middle unroll into new fronds, joint by joint from the base to the tip, then roll back up. Pick a Seed in the Splash tab for a different fern. With ✋ Hands-on on, brush the fronds and they bend after your finger; let go and they spring back and sway.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 840,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

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