then you can go all out and plant larger fern species, like the Australian tree fern. With a large canopy and elegant single trunk, this fern is an ideal choice if you love the rainforest ...

“We see very few conifers or angiosperms or anything like that,” she adds, leading researchers to dub the layer the fern spike. Ferns aren’t any better preserved in the fossil record than other types ...

Ferns have a brilliant way of reproducing. They don’t produce seeds like flowering plants, but instead grow a completely new, independent plant called a gametophyte. If you look on the underside of ...

Bird's nest ferns, like most ferns, thrive in consistently moist soil but are highly sensitive to overwatering. Native to rainforests, they often grow on other plants rather than in the soil ...

Forget birdwatching, fern foraging hikes are the new hot trend in nature exploration! These so-called Pteridomania (fern ...

Keeping these delicate plants happy can be pretty tricky ... The key, then, is knowing exactly what asparagus ferns like when it comes to water, light and humidity. And that’s where this ...

BBC Inside Science A special programme on plants and their pollinators, poisons and pests Azolla – a tiny ancient fern-like pond weed A tiny ancient fern-like pond weed that could have changed ...

From there, the zombie fern’s reanimated leaves sprout a ... the researchers say that the dead leaves still look like decayed plant matter, which is what has earned them the “zombie” moniker.