【视频】一株被救下15年的巨型蕨类植物在社交平台走红：Denver一家每年秋天合力把名叫Jeff的它搬进屋
位于美国科罗拉多州丹佛县的Denver市，Jeff Runyan一家养的一株巨型蕨类植物近日在社交平台走红。据ABC新闻报道，这株蕨类植物名叫Jeff，个头大到每年秋天都要全家合力、今年还请了邻居帮忙，才把它搬进屋里过冬；ABC新闻《早安美国》节目11月9日播出了记者Danny New对这一家人的采访。
这株蕨类植物的来历要从15年前说起。据报道，Runyan的父母当年买了一株普通的篮子蕨放在露台上，夏天结束时，他的母亲觉得养不下去、打算把它扔掉，是儿子把它救了下来，请母亲不要扔。当时他与一名室友同住，室友也叫Jeff，如今是神父，人称Father Jeff，室友提议干脆也把这株蕨取名为Jeff，这个名字就此沿用了下来。
此后15年，这株蕨在这一家人手里越长越大，成了家里的一个成员。Runyan与妻子Emily Rachelle和五个孩子住在Denver，每年初霜到来之前，一家人都会小心地把Jeff搬进屋里，春天再把它搬回室外晒太阳，这已经成了这个家庭每年固定的搬运仪式。
今年5月，一家人刚给Jeff换了一个更大的花盆。到了今秋，Jeff已经重到一家人自己搬不动，他们请来邻居帮忙，才把这株巨型蕨搬进屋里，安放在它的位置上。搬进屋后，Jeff偶尔会把藏在叶子里的小虫子一并带进屋，叶子也会沿路掉下不少，一家人对此并不介意，等到来年春天再把它送回室外。
Runyan在采访中谈到这项家庭传统时说：「这就是你用心去爱护一样东西会发生的事，对吗？」
今年春天，一家人还收获了一个意外惊喜：他们把Jeff搬到室外时，发现旁边一盆植物里长出了一株小蕨，是Jeff自己繁衍出来的。一家人给这株小蕨也取了同一个名字，Jeff。
[Video] Giant Fern Named Jeff Goes Viral: Denver Family Hauls the Plant Saved 15 Years Ago Indoors Every Fall
A giant fern kept by a Denver family has gone viral on social media. According to ABC News, the fern, named Jeff, has grown so large that moving it indoors for the winter each fall takes the whole family, and this year a neighbor's help as well. ABC News' Good Morning America aired reporter Danny New's interview with the family, the Runyans of Denver, Denver County, Colorado, on November 9.
The fern's story began 15 years ago. Jeff Runyan's parents had bought an ordinary basket fern for their patio, and when summer ended his mother decided she could no longer keep it and planned to throw it away. Her son stepped in and saved it, asking her not to throw it out. He was living with a roommate at the time, also named Jeff and now a priest known as Father Jeff, who suggested naming the fern Jeff as well. The name stuck.
Over the 15 years since, the fern has grown larger and larger in the family's care and become a member of the household. Runyan, his wife Emily Rachelle and their five children in Denver carefully bring Jeff indoors every year before the first frost, and move it back outside in the spring to enjoy the sunshine, an annual moving ritual for the family.
This May, the family repotted Jeff into a larger pot. By this fall, Jeff had become so heavy that the family could no longer carry it alone, and they asked a neighbor for help to move the giant fern back inside to its place. Once indoors, Jeff occasionally brings a few stowaway bugs in with it and sheds a trail of leaves through the house, minor inconveniences the family gladly accepts until the fern returns outdoors in the spring.
Reflecting on the family tradition in the interview, Runyan said: "This is what happens when you put love into things, right?"
The family got a surprise this year. When they moved Jeff outside this past spring, they discovered a tiny baby fern growing in a pot next to it, a new plant Jeff had produced. The family named the new addition Jeff as well.
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图片来源：图：名叫Jeff的巨型蕨类植物搬进屋内的画面，截自ABC新闻《早安美国》11月9日视频。/ The giant fern named Jeff after being moved indoors, in a frame from ABC News' Good Morning America video of November 9.
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