Post No. 32. Ferns
Ferns are a very ancient family of plants and belongs to a group of vascular plants and unlike other vascular plants they reproduce from spores in a stage called a gametophyte and have neither seeds nor flowers. They are older than land animals and far older than the dinosaurs. They were living on Earth for two hundred million years before the flowering plants evolved.

Ferns first appear in the fossil record about 360 million yeas ago in the late Devonian period, but many of the current families and species did not appear until roughly 145 million years ago in the early Cretaceous, after flowering plants came to dominate many environments.  Some ferns are used as food, medicine, biofertilizer and ornamental plants and for remediating contaminated soil. They have been the subject of research for their ability to remove some chemical pollutants from the atmosphere. They play certain roles in mythology and art. (Photo was taken from my visit to Fern Nature Center on April 7h, 2018)

References:
How to Grow Ferns. Time: 2:36:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le9ZjvwGZFU

Ferns Plans and their Life Cycle( seedless, vascular) updated. Time: 16:16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myZKyn36B-0

Fern Life Cycle. Time: 10:19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhk-Y0duNjg

Fern Reproduction. Time: 4:22:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCxvLx_6-Ms

Resurrection Fern, a plant with amazing superpowers: time Lapse. Time: 5:09:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdB_pmzhhbE

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