This Fern Grows Rare‑Earth Crystals Inside Its Leaves – and It Could Rewrite ‘Green Mining’
What the scientists actually found In Blechnum orientale, a known REE‑accumulating fern, rare‑earth ions taken up from soil first precipitate as nanoparticles between plant cells and then crystallize into monazite‑(La) inside leaf tissues. The EST authors describe dendritic nanocrystals forming under ambient