Modern science is only now uncovering what Aboriginal communities have long understood about Australia's flora.

Like the clubmosses (see Plant Evolution I), the ferns are early vascular plants that rely on water for sexual reproduction because they have free-swimming sperm. Because of this, they are limited ...

The monomorphic bulblet fern (Cystopteris bulbifera) uses the same leaves for photosynthesis and spore production. (Image credit: Jacob S. Suissa) Ferns have multiple reproductive strategies.

Ferns often die in summer as most people do not realise they cannot cope with the heat, but there is a simple way to keep ...

The best screened porch plants thrive in a shady setting. We've pulled together a list of easy foliage and flowers for ...

Imagine taking a fertile fern leaf, shrinking it down and wrapping it up tightly into a tiny pellet. That’s basically what an unfertilized seed is – a highly modified dimorphic fern leaf, in a ...

From there, the zombie fern’s reanimated leaves sprout a network of rootlets that can then draw nitrogen out of the soil and into the plant. Despite being reanimated and turned into roots, ...

Q: Here’s a picture of the rabbit’s foot fern that we’ve had for over 40 years. I don’t know if it’s root-bound, and I don’t know if it can be replanted. It used to have more fern ...