On the cover Living fractal – a recursive self-similarity manifested beautifully in unfurling of the rachis but also of the pinnae in a bipinnate frond of Dryopteris filix-mas.

Erratum The fern shown on the cover of ASBP issue Vol. 80, No. 3 (2011) has been erroneously identified. The frond with characteristically undulated pinnae belongs to Matteuccia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro.