It is growing on a board attached to a chain that hangs from her jacaranda tree. “I know this fern grew from a spore,” she wrote, “because I remember when, 30 years ago, a tiny staghorn ...

A new study explores how the flying spider-monkey tree fern might hoard chromosomes. ... Recent studies estimate ferns split from seed-bearing plants about 400 million years ago.

SERIES 30 | Episode 12. HOW DO I WATER A TREE FERN. JANE: The trunks of tree ferns are actually a root mass, so the best technique for irrigating is to apply water up and down the trunk. Don’t ...

In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic tree—bryophytes and seedless vascular plants, like mosses and ferns.

But this tree fern’s “zombie leaves,” or leaf roots, represent the first known example of a repurposing of dying tissue, said Eddie Watkins, a professor and fern expert at Colgate University ...

Seed ferns: Plants experimented ... Jan. 29, 2024 — Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, ...