The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

For example, Boston ferns and staghorn ferns are often grown as indoor hanging plants, and have a slightly droopy appearance. 'If it is dry it will droop more, of course,' Lisa adds.

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Researchers have described six species of ferns new to science from the tropical forests of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, all in the genus Danaea. “The described species are no tiny or ...

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After writing about some of our Texas native plant varieties the past few weeks, this week I also wanted to include a few of our native fern varieties that can be found growing all over the state ...

In lineages such as ferns, species may retain their ability to "evolve backward," even after specialization. RELATED STORIES ...

By comparison, the nucleus of a human cell contains just over 6 billion base pairs, or around 2 metres, of DNA – around 50 times less than the fern. Before this discovery, the largest known ...

A new study identified the largest known genome of any organism in a fern found in Pacific islands. Its cells have more than 50 times the DNA as human cells have.

Ferns aren’t any better preserved in the fossil record than other types of plants, and so their explosion in abundance in the centuries following the asteroid’s impact suggests that “something about ...

Seed ferns: Plants experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago Flowering plant-type leaf veins died out and re-evolved several times in the course of the Earth's history ...