While most ferns grow in shady forests, near fresh water, in rich loose soil a few are petrifitic and grow on rocks or are epiphytic and grow on tree trunks and branches. Their nourishment comes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

specialises in wall-mounted staghorn and elk horn ferns; and Michikusa’s YouTube channel offers instructions for growing epiphytic ferns on moss and lava rock. I always expect a pterodactyl to ...