Last fern standing: Botanic garden rescues disappearing plants


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Field biologist Jennifer Possley holds the Caribbean maiden fern, a rare fern in danger of disappearing, at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden nursery in Coral Gables, Florida in the US. Photos: TNS

By JENNY STALETOVICH

Somewhere in the southern reaches of Miami-Dade County, the only fern of its kind known to grow wild in the continental United States survives under a thicket of Brazilian pepper.

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