The fern, Cyathea rojasiana, reconfigures these 'zombie leaves,' reversing the flow of water to draw nutrients back into the plant. Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only ...

After some lab work to find out more, researchers found these roots were actively drawing ... familiar with ferns and other plants that grow new plantlets at the tips of their leaves—like ...

By Douglas Main In the rainforests of western Panama, the plant biologist Jim Dalling stumbled upon some tree ferns with six-foot-long leaves that bent to the ground as they were dying ...