This fern is native to the rainforest, where it grows between tree branches. (It's naturally an epiphyte, which is an organism that grows on the surface of another plant.) There, its fronds often ...

Christmas ferns, they're just simple woodland shade plants, right? Wrong! Turns out, we’ve been taking this green-leafed plant for granted for quite some time. Said to gain its name from ...

The ferns and their relatives first appear in the fossil record some 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period. They diversified into many of the modern fern families and species during the ...

Gadshill: “We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible.” ...

Naturally deer-resistant, ferns are not limited to shades of green, but also come in hues of red and purple, allowing for ...

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