In May 2023, he and his team collected samples of the diminutive plant in the wild and brought them back to the lab, where they compared the fern’s genome with species of known genome size.

the New Caledonian fork fern species Tmesipteris oblanceolata was found to contain more than 50 times more DNA than humans and has dethroned the Japanese flowering plant species Paris japonica ...

may be detrimental to more tender species. Very few ferns are bothered by insect pests, making these plants easy to grow and maintain. In our area, the time to prepare beds for planting ferns is ...

Polystichum neolobatum: “A very hardy, very beautiful, clump-forming, slightly tropical looking fern native to parts of the ...

To do the same for a small, seemingly unremarkable fern found on a few Pacific islands would require nearly 11,000 books. The plant, called Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has the largest known genome ...

Why might ferns have such flexible reproductive strategies? The answer lies in what they lack: seeds, flowers and fruits. This distinguishes them from the more than 350,000 species of seed plants ...

Chulalongkorn University researchers discovered three new plant species during a survey at Phu Kradueng National Park, Loei ...