A natural history of ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are unique among plants ferns live in habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes and unlike seed plants which endow each seed with the resources to help their offspring ferns reproduce by minute spores. A natural history of ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are unique among plants ferns live in habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes and unlike seed plants which endow each seed with the resources to help their offspring ferns reproduce by minute spores. A natural history of ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are unique among plants ferns live in habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes and unlike. A natural history of ferns there are poisonous ferns iridescent ferns and resurrection ferns that survive desert heat and drought a natural history of belize presents for the first time a detailed portrait of the habitats biodiversity and ecology of the maya forest and belize more broadly in a format accessible to a popular audience