Not not all types of ferns produce offshoots or a ready supply of new plants. To grow large numbers and develop hybrids, growers may obtain their starts through spore germination, a process that can ...

Don't put away your seed flats and potting soil just yet. It's time to go on a spore hunt. Spores are a most useful catch if you want to plant ferns in quantity. But you'll have to be patient. Keep ...

Don't put away your seed flats and potting soil just yet. It's time to go on a spore hunt. Spores are a most useful catch if you want to plant ferns in quantity. But you'll have to be patient. Keep ...

Although rain is the most important agent in airborne biological particle deposition most of the current sampling traps retain palynomorphs (fern spore, fungal spore ...

Don't put away your seed flats and potting soil just yet. It's time to go on a spore hunt. Spores are a most useful catch if you want to plant ferns in quantity. But you'll have to be patient. Keep ...

Don't put away your seed flats and potting soil just yet. It's time to go on a spore hunt. Spores are a most useful catch if you want to plant ferns in quantity. But you'll have to be patient. Keep ...

• Background and Aims Populations established by long-distance colonization are expected to show low levels of genetic variation per population, but strong genetic differentiation among populations.

Fern reproduction is so mysterious it remained wrapped in mystery and magic until the middle of the 19th century. The reason is that – unlike all other plants – ferns don’t flower and therefore ...

Ferns can add a woodland feeling to shady areas of a perennial garden. Because they might have lacy or leathery leaves, grow upright or trail, be plain green or variegated, their variation offers ...

On a beautiful Saturday morning in early June, I volunteered at Wilson’s Farm in Brighton Township for an environmental field study to learn the language of ferns. Though I often noticed copious ...

As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

This colorscape of tubes and grooves is a cross section through the reproductive region of a fern. Ferns use spores to reproduce and spread, and here we can see these spores (blue/purple) encased in ...