Our second field trip in Italy was to Liguria, where we hiked into an abandoned manganese mine filled with a lush, dense covering of ferns. Between the valley floor and hill we had to hike up and over to reach the mine, we crossed a number of habitat types and saw ferns with many varieties of habitat preference, from dark forest understory to exposed, gravelly cliff faces.
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| Me at the bottom of the valley |
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| Looking down at the shaft from across the valley |
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| Cheilanthes tinaei |
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| Asplenium foreziense |
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| Asplenium septentrionale |
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| Paragymnopteris |
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| Asplenium onopteris |
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| The red is from the manganese |
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| Abandoned mine tracks |
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| Abandoned mine cart |
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| Dryopteris dilatata |
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| Asplenium x sleepiaea |
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| Asplenium adiantum-nigrum |
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| Asplenium trichomanes ssp. trichomanes |
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| Notholaena |
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| Pressing and labeling all our collections |
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