If you're up to a challenge, you can also try growing ferns from spores, which takes patience—but after, you'll have all the fronds you could ever want. Here, we spoke to experts about all ...

If you want to easily expand your collection of bird's nest ferns, you can propagate them through division or spores. To propagate your bird's nest fern through division, gently separate the plant ...

On a spring morning, a search for a specific species of fern leads to a discussion on ancient plant history, vascular beauty ...

This colorscape of tubes and grooves is a cross section through the reproductive region of a fern. Ferns use spores to reproduce and spread, and here we can see these spores (blue/purple) encased in ...

In addition to the daffodils and dogwoods blooming, there’s a subtle but equally welcome sign of spring in the garden and landscape: emerging fern fiddleheads. In a range of ...

A sporangium is where a fern produces the spores that allow it to reproduce. Get a closer view of the image Get a closer view of the image Get a closer view of the image This conglomeration of shapes ...

But since the 1970s, geologists have also noted the existence of another layer, just above the iridium-rich one, that contains “lots and lots and lots of fossil fern spores” and not much else, says ...