Pteridology (FERNS) with Dr. Fay-Wei Li
The study of FERNS
Episode Info
- Guest: Dr. Fay-Wei Li
- Date: Dec 3
- Topics: Plants
- Listen: Original Episode
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About This Episode
Fronds. Forest dwellers. Spores. Houseplants. Queer icons. We’ve got ferns. The charming and hilarious professor and author of “Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants,” Dr. Fay-Wei Li, tells me all about fern evolution, what ferns not to have in your house, the most expensive ferns, the tastiest ferns, mathematical mysteries, and a genome that makes no sense, to me or a lot of Pteridologists. Also, can Between Two Ferns save science? This episode is, in Fay-Wei’s words, “ferntastic.”