Incised Halberd Fern - Sint Eustatius

In 1954, the Netherlands organized its six holdings in the Caribbean into a “constituent country” known as the Netherlands Antilles. This entity was dissolved in 2010 with Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius becoming special municipalities; Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten each became a separate “constituent country.” 

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Tectaria incisa - The incised halberd fern is found throughout the Caribbean region and from Florida to Northern Argentina. It prefers moist gullies, ravines, wooded hillsides, hammocks, and oolitic rock formations; hammocks are dense strands of trees and oolitic rock is a sedimentary rock of spherical grains. The halberd fern is typically terrestrial, but on rare occasions can be seen growing as an epiphyte, a plant growing on the surface of another plant and taking needed nutrients from the air, rain or decaying debris found near its base.

Worm Fern - Sweden

Dryopteris filix-mas - The worm fern grows in the northern hemispheres of Europe and the Americas and is primarily found in damp woodlands. The leaves grow from a root stock featuring a single crown. Each leaf grows to a maximum length of 150 centimeters. The spores ripen in late summer to early fall and are released by the leaves when the indusium, a protective cover, begins to shrink back. The spores are usually located on the underside of the fern’s leaf or along the edge of the leaves.

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Sweden is one of three countries on the Scandinavian peninsula, a geographical, cultural, and historical region in Northern Europe with a common Germanic heritage. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are the three countries most often associated with Scandinavia, but a broader use of the name sometimes includes Iceland and Finland. The languages of the three countries forms a dialect continuum, a term describing a range of dialects spoken across a geographical area with slight and subtle variances.