Rare ferns and rainforest species have been discovered in a part of the Eastern Victoria region that is earmarked for logging, according to an environment group. The Goongerah Environment Centre ...

Dr Farnon Ellwood is leading the study, he explains, "In its natural habitat the bird's nest fern grows on trees high up in the rainforest canopy where it can reach enormous sizes of up to 180 kg ...

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 ...

Sydney botanist Dr Matt Renner had been searching for rare ferns in the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland for decades. While scientists had conducted repeated searches to find the ferns ...

from 35 ferns of a range of sizes (1–200 kg fresh weight) and vertical heights (2–52 m) from 7 ha of lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Borneo (see Methods). We took the ferns down and ...

Essentially, fiddlehead ferns are fronds that haven’t unfurled ... In urban areas, a plate of this rainforest delicacy can cost as much as RM30. But if you venture into Pahang’s Taman Negara ...

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 ...