American Fern Journal, Vol. 95, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2005), pp. 115-125 (11 pages) Dicksonia sellowiana spores were cultivated in mineral solution. After 30 days, young gametophytes were transferred to ...

Tree ferns (Cyathea sp. and Dicksonia sp.) Older than the dinosaurs, tree ferns existed on earth long before the flowering or cone-bearing plants evolved. In some dense wet forest communities, the ...

I spent half of my life assuming that soft tree ferns (Dicksonia antarctica) needed deep, rich, well-drained rainforest soil to survive and a botanist in a white lab coat and specialist growing mix to ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million years. Giant tree fern forests were common for millions of years but they gave ...

Can plants without lovely blossoms, colorful leaves or tasty fruit be considered indispensable components of the landscape? They certainly can, especially if we're talking about ferns. No other plants ...