Then she collapsed again upon the blanket, the exhausted motion of a pale dead frond.

A sudden gust of wind sent a dead frond crashing down, and the sound scared Jubert.

A distinctive feature is the retention of dead fronds as a skirt.

A fern had many dead or yellowing fronds and there was a strong suspicion that scales were the causing problem.

This is what happened to a beautiful Boston fern that was looking rather sad the last few weeks with many yellow or, worse, dead fronds.

"Just cut the dead fronds back - or cut back the whole plant if it's in terrible shape," she said.

He'll point to the overgrown palm next door, where he doesn't like my new neighbors, and say: "They've got rats in the dead fronds.

If available, the western yellow bat will use the dead fronds that encircle palm trees as a roosting site.

Liu had found enough dead fronds and branches to build a fire on the sands.

These are collections of dead fronds against the trunk and provide a favored dark habitat for the bats.