As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Endozoochory is an important dispersal mechanism for seed plants and has recently been demonstrated to occur also in spore plants, such as ...

Botonists reveals that the unique timing of spore dispersal in the sensitive fern, known as Onoclea sensibilis, is determined by a structural mechanism of humidity-driven movement in spore bearing ...

Although rain is the most important agent in airborne biological particle deposition most of the current sampling traps retain palynomorphs (fern spore, fungal spore, pollen, among others) but are ...

Those rows of orange cluster under a fern leaf are spores waiting to be catapulted away. Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting ...

This colorscape of tubes and grooves is a cross section through the reproductive region of a fern. Ferns use spores to reproduce and spread, and here we can see these spores (blue/purple) encased in ...

Take a rainy or foggy winter walk to look for ferns. Right now ferns are sprouting with bright green new growth. The book “Marin Flora: An Illustrated Manual of the Flowering Plants, Ferns and ...