ferns were once thought to be magical plant that is because they bear neither flowers nor fruit nor seed, yet a new plant emerges, seemingly out of nowhere we now know that ferns grow from spores, but there was a time when it was believed they did bear flowers according to a legend, ferns bore flowers before the birth of Christ when Jesus Chris was born , the plants around his birthplace burst into bloom in celebration, with the exception of the ferns for this failure, ferns were condemned to flowerless state from that day on