Ferns are often valued for their beauty and ability to soften outdoor spaces, creating a little corner of peace wherever they are planted. Unlike other ornamental plants, many ferns thrive in filtered ...

Learn how to grow and care for ferns so you can enjoy their lush ambiance in your garden year after year.

Ferns are versatile plants that add visual interest to both gardens and homes with their textured and colorful fronds. While they do not bloom like traditional flowers, their large, divided leaves ...

Members of the fern family vary from moss like mini ferns to gigantic palm like tree ferns over 50 feet in height. There are many ferns that live attached to trunks and branches of trees like the ...

Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant. The fern, Cyathea ...

In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients. By Douglas Main In the rainforests of western Panama, the ...

Researchers have clarified the evolutionary history of a previously poorly known group of ferns from the tropical rainforests of America using DNA methods. The study discovered many new fern species, ...