Gadshill: “We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible.” Chamberlain. “Now, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible. – Shakespeare ...

Cinnamon fern is common all over eastern North America. You'll find it in shady swamps and wetlands along creeks and streams. Well, ferns don't make seeds. Do they? Back in the Middle Ages, and well ...

The moss even made it back to Earth after 283 days - still capable of reproducing. And scientists calculated that the spores could have survived for up to 5,600 days - around 15 years - in space. The ...

Back in the Middle Ages, and well into the 16th century, there was considerable confusion regarding the way plants worked, along with just about everything else. Plants — that is, all plants — were ...

A variety of fossilized plant spores have been found in rocks from Western Australia that date from the early Ordovician era—approximately 480 million years ago. According to a paper published in ...

This microscopic image shows the spores and hyphae of 'friendly' arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus interacting with a plant root. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...