But there outside a row of old-style apartment buildings, we spy the fronds of a maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) poking up out of a drainage channel. Unlike the delicate imported variety one sees at flower markets, this native maidenhair fern can often be seen growing on urban concrete or brick walls, or in drains.
一排公寓房子外的排水溝裡，赫然伸展著一株鐵線蕨，有別於花市看到的進口嬌客，原生「國貨」鐵線蕨常落腳都會水泥牆、紅磚牆與排水溝中。