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Pteridomania or fern
fever was a
Victorian craze for ferns.
Decorative arts of the
period presented the fern
motif in pottery, gl****, metal, textiles,...
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broader sense that
includes the more
distantly related lycophytes.
Pteridomania was a
Victorian era
craze which involved fern
collecting and fern motifs...
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Fellow of the
Linnean Society and a
Fellow of the
Royal Society.
Vivarium Pteridomania Bottle garden Biotope Allaby,
Michael (2010). Plants, Food, Medicine...
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under similar conditions. In 1855,
parts of
England were
gripped by '
pteridomania' (the fern craze). This term was
coined by
Charles Kingsley, clergyman...
- articles, as well as
several volumes of sermons.
Kingsley coined the term
pteridomania (meaning "a
craze for ferns") in his 1855 book Glaucus, or the Wonders...
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celebrated by
carrying palm leaves.
During the
Victorian phenomenon of
Pteridomania or "fern craze", fern
fronds became wildly po****r symbols.
Because fronds...
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could begin to
develop with
other methods,
including organic elements in
pteridomania. By
changing one’s
immediate dwelling quarters, one
changed one’s mind...
- greed/obession with
money or
wealth (ploutos- (Gr****)
meaning wealth)
Pteridomania –
ferns Pyromania – fire or
starting fires Rhinotillexomania – nose picking...
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editor was John Lindley. The book was
released at a time of so-called "
pteridomania" in Britain.
Along with
William Grosart Johnstone and
Alexander Croall's...
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growth form.
Ferns sports particularly suffered during the Victorian-era
Pteridomania ('Fern-Fever') craze, when over
collecting of fern
species included over...
