Affinity Silverworks on Instagram: "The real answer is that they reproduce through spores! If you look up the lifecycle of a fern, you’ll see why nobody actually figured it out until the late 1800s. It’s notoriously hard to observe in nature, and so complicated it’s like it was designed to throw people off. So why would a fern seed make you invisible too? Medieval herbalism included a principle called the Doctrine of Signatures: a plant’s physical qualities were an indication of what it would do