The ferns are a common sight on Southern porches, their green or bluish-green fronds arching gracefully as they grow. These tropical ferns require a frost-free climate to survive the winter.

A little attention to these details can bring your fern back to its heyday,' explains Jacob James from Grow Tropical. If your ...

Besides shady forest areas, as at this station, ferns can also grow in crevices in rock faces, in acid environments such as bogs and swamps and as epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — on ...

Ferns use spores to reproduce and spread, and here we can see these spores (blue/purple) encased in the structures that produce them, known as sporangia. This image shows the spores of a small ...