Polypodium leucotomos is a tropical fern native to the Americas. Taking supplements or using topical creams made from the plant is thought to help treat inflammatory skin conditions and protect ...

Calagula, calagualine, ferns, Polypodiaceae (family), Polypodium cambricum, Polypodium decumanum, Polypodium vulgare, samambaia. Extracts of fern species (family Polypodiaceae) have been used ...

MILAN — Application of topical or both topical and oral polypodium leucotomos extract (PLE) was associated with significant reversal of adverse skin changes in patients with severe actinic keratoses ...

This native plant grows just as well in a garden bed as it does on a dead tree trunk or log. What: Almost omnipresent in the crooks of big-leaf maples throughout the forests of the maritime Pacific ...

Photoprotective supplements are pills or capsules that promise to help protect skin from exposure to UV rays. One of the most common ingredients, the extract of the plant Polypodium leucotomos, is an ...

The Polypodium vulgare complex (Polypodiaceae) comprises a well-studied group of fern taxa whose members are cryptically differentiated morphologically and have generated a confusing and highly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information In 1914, the Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, the flagship journal of the scientific publications program, was founded to ...

We are coming up to November, usually the dankest and dreariest month of the gardening year. The mood of decline and decay can be considerably lightened, however, by using the fresh green fronds of ...

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There is a truly remarkable plant in my garden. It grows on top of a dry-stone wall, with nothing more nutritious to feed on than limestone dust. Shrivelled to a crisp in early summer, it recovers by ...