JANE EDMANSON: Winter is the ideal time to transplant a tree fern. A little bit of extra moisture over winter and certainly the cooler temperatures will help a transplant quite easily. But before you ...

'Tree Fern', a rare plant species found in Bailadila hills of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, is facing the threat of extinction owing to mining activities in the area, environment experts have ...

Scientists have discovered a zombie tree that converts its leaves into roots as it dies. The Cyathea rojasiana tree fern, which is native to Panama in Central America, was studied by plant biologists ...

Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant. The fern, Cyathea ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign plant biology professor James Dalling and his colleagues discovered that some tree ferns recycle their dead fronds into roots. The researchers call these ...