Christmas ferns, they're just simple woodland shade plants, right? Wrong! Turns out, we’ve been taking this green-leafed plant for granted for quite some time. Said to gain its name from ...

New research has identified the largest known genome of any living organism in an unassuming fern found in New Caledonia, an island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. The rare plant contains 160 ...

“I’ve never heard of any other fern doing this, or for that matter, any other land plant,” says botanist Erin Sigel of the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Neotropical fern expert ...

On one hike on Australia’s Lord Howe Island, he came across a cluster of staghorn ferns. They are common potted plants, but in nature they grow in dense colonies that cling to treetops.

It takes quite a bit for a plant to get the conservatory’s horticulture staff talking, but Tiger Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata ‘Tiger Fern’) does just that. A variation of the Boston fern ...