Recently I wrote about ferns and their normal way of reproducing by making microscopically small spores, invisible to the naked eye. But some ferns reproduce by cloning themselves, just as many ...

“Ferns are ancient, 400 million years old or so,” said ecologist Lisa Lofland Gould, secretary of the North Carolina Native Plant Society Board and member of the Piedmont Land Conservancy. “They ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background and Aims Organisms often balance among reproduction, growth and survival. When these processes are in competition, selection may ...

If there's one houseplant my visitors always point out, it's my asparagus fern. Its soft fronds make a magnificent display in my living room and it grew so large it started to trail like a cascading ...

What are the brown dots on my fern? JANE: The short answer is – nothing to worry about! These neat clusters of dots on the backs of fern foliage are spores, and it is the method by which ferns ...

Ferns are these beautiful plants that reproduce using spores and lack seeds or flowers. They can be grown indoors and outside ...