Kangaroo paw fern is an epiphytic fern with distinctive foliage and a creeping, spreading growth habit. This fern gets its name from the tips of its silvery green fronds, which resemble a kangaroo ...

I'm always on the hunt for unique houseplants to add to my growing collection and staghorn ferns certainly make the cut. These epiphytic plants grow on the bark of trees in their natural habitat ...

Staghorn ferns are native to tropical and temperate areas of South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Guinea. Platyceria spp are epiphytic ferns that, in their forested natural ...

Phlebodium is one of the easiest ferns to grow.Credit: iStock In the garden epiphytes are especially useful where it is hard to dig a hole, such as in the root mass of date palms, or around mature ...

Resurrection fern, an epiphytic species that grows throughout Florida, has fascinated gardeners and hikers for centuries. This fern is typically found on the deeply corrugated bark of Southern ...

Instead of growing in the ground, many Australian ferns attach themselves to trees (epiphytes) or rocks (lithophytes) and get their nutrients from decaying leaf matter and animal droppings that ...

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 ...

Their spores are dispersed by wind and they sometimes land high in the tree canopy, where the young ferns find root-hold and grow as epiphytes. In fact, licorice fern has been documented in the ...

The group includes many ferns, orchids, bromeliads and even some cacti. Although epiphytes grow attached to shrubs and trees, they are not parasites, since they do not take their nutrients from ...