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Egg sacs on my Java fern?

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I just came home and one Java fern leaf has something that looks like egg sacs on it can someone tell me what this is.

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That's spores where new plants will eventually grow from.

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They are called sori, and the spores are contained within. You can see the same in different patterns on emersed ferns. Sometimes tiny adventitious plants grow from them on Java ferns.
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