The young-of-the-year plants, animals and mushrooms are often quite different in structure, sometimes color, from the older, later life forms. Ferns, with their elaborate fronds, aka compound leaves, are often coiled and sometimes coiled within coils. These coiled beginnings have their own names, too. Fiddlehead or crosier, crozier, too, or simply coiled frond or fiddlehead greens when they are served up as a substitute for asparagus shoots. The fiddleheads of the interrupted fern are covered by dense, white hairs.
The coils are almost always coiled inward, not outward, in a mound if six or more fiddleheads. The one time saw them coiled outward was in a painting by a well-known nature artist. Talk about taking artist’s liberties.