in acid environments such as bogs and swamps and as epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — on tropical rainforest trees. On the Waldbauer trail you can see at least eight species of ferns. Six ...

one of the few green plants on the forest floor this time of year, other than young conifers. An easy fern to identify, it ...

We learned to identify this aspect on the plants’ leaflets, known as sori, which contain these spores, on the underside of ...