Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million years. Giant tree fern forests were common for millions of years but they gave ...

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 ...

The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they ...

For the first time, researchers have characterized the genome arrangement of tree ferns, which sheds new insight into how ferns evolved. Land plants evolved 470 million years ago from algae and have ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment. In ...

The Miyawaki Method was invented nearly 20 years ago by Japanese botanist and plant ecologist Akira Miyawaki. It involves planting a variety of different flora and fauna very close together so that ...

The gumbo limbo, Bursera simaruba, also called the naked Indian tree in the Caribbean is hard to miss because of its reddish shiny bark. It is also referred to as the living fencepost tree since a ...