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I bought a fern(?) a long time ago. I've begun to suspect I'm allergic to something in my apartmemt, and I doubt it's the fern, but I figure this is a good time to identify an unexpected bonus-growing-thing that came with it: What the Hell is this weird fuzzy thing?
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I bought a fern(?) a long time ago. I’ve begun to suspect I’m allergic to something in my apartmemt, and I doubt it’s the fern, but I figure this is a good time to identify an unexpected bonus-growing-thing that came with it: What the Hell is this weird fuzzy thing?


I bought a fern(?) a long time ago. I’ve begun to suspect I’m allergic to something in my apartmemt, and I doubt it’s the fern, but I figure this is a good time to identify an unexpected bonus-growing-thing that came with it: What the Hell is this weird fuzzy thing?

by RollerskatingFemboy

14 Comments

  1. twistedteets

    Thats an air root from your rabbits foot fern!

  2. Low-Stick-2958

    lol it’s a rhizome, basically a modified stem. More fronds will emerge from it, it’s how they spread

  3. livesuddenly

    Rabbit’s foot fern? I don’t own a fern but we have one of these and work and that’s what a coworker calls it.

  4. Direct_Armadillo755

    Confirming its a rabbits foot fern. They’re amazing. Look them up!

  5. RollerskatingFemboy

    Other possible candidates:

    1) I have a pretty big Midnight Blooming Cereus that’s slowly taking over my kitchen :3 maybe it made a bloom and I just didn’t notice? I know their blooms tend to release an obscene amount of pollen.

    2) A box of 107-year-old books I was recently gifted that I realized I could smell from the couch the other day. They are now in a dedicated plastic box.

    3) Maybe just from turning on the heat and having air going through a dusty hvac system? But I’m not sure about this one, like; my heat has been on for weeks now.

    4) Just… The losing battle I’ve been fighting in my apartment bathroom for years against mildew?

    In any case, I know it’s November, but I’m noticing distinctly this week that I’m experiencing constant allergy /mild sickness symptoms, but today I made the connection that they dissipate when I leave the house. And I’m sick of being sick, so if something in my apartment is contributing, I want to finally identify it.

  7. pier0445

    omg is that a rabbit’s foot fern?? my roommate has one and it has those fuzzy little rhizomes that look like lil paws.

  9. DarthArchon

    fern reproduce by spores so if you are spore sensitive it might be it.

  13. shellsonthebeach123

    It’s part of the fern- maybe a rabbits foot fern?

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