Upright-growing rhizomes form a distinct crown consisting of the tightly coiled croziers at the soil surface, which grow in spring into a whorl of fronds that radiate from the center like a vase. These may grow out of the ground to form small trunks.
Newly unfurling frond is referred to as a crozier or fiddlehead.
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The swollen underground creeping stem from which the roots are born is a rhizome.
 See also: Plant, Soil, Grow, Pinna, Frond
  
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