The Chinese brake fern looks unassuming. But Pteris vittata has a superpower: It sucks up arsenic, tucks the toxic metal away in its fronds and lives to tell the tale. No other plants or animals are ...

Looking very “unfernlike,” the American Climbing Fern has individual leaves that look something like a hand. About the size of a quarter, they can be easy to overlook. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON ...

Unique fern sucks nutrients from the soil using dead "zombie leaves" By Ben Coxworth January 29, 2024 Plant biology professor James Dalling and colleagues discovered that some tree ferns recycle their ...

In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC) in Spain present a new record-holder for the largest ...

There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend themselves nicely to watercolor paintings and tricep tattoos alike. Thoreau said ...

I covered the evolution of ferns, their place in the general evolution of terrestrial plants and the curious nature of their reproductive cycle. To put it plainly, things got away from me and I didn’t ...