Tag: Fern plants

Athyrium niponicum – Fern plants

Athyrium niponicum is an attractive, deciduous fern plant. It has creeping rhizomes with a whorl of fronds growing from the basal rootstock. The fronds are triangular-shaped blades, 10 to 16 inches tall and 6 to 10 inches broad, pinnate, with 6-10 pairs of pinnae 4 to 9 cm long and 2 to 3cm broad, deeplyRead More

Japanese painted fern – Fern plants

Japanese painted fern is an ornamental, deciduous, feathery fern. It has silvery-grey fronds that are dusty purple towards the center with purplish-red veins and stems. The fronds are variable in length, generally 30 to 75 cm long but occasionally over a meter in length. It is ideal for growing in a woodland border or beneathRead More

Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina) – Fern plants

Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina) is an ornamental, large, feathery fern and grows up to 2-5 meters tall. It has light-green color and twice-pinnate fronds with finely toothed leaflets create the illusion of a dainty fern, despite its large size. Stems are greenish-yellow to red. The fronds arise from stout, ascending to erect rhizomes. The rhizomesRead More

Pellaea rotundifolia (Button fern) – Fern plants

Pellaea rotundifolia (Button fern) is an evergreen fern. It has small, button-shaped and leathery leaflets densely cover arching fronds up to 18 inches tall. Leaf stalks turn a dark red with age. It is primarily grown as a houseplant in hanging baskets or in ornamental containers on tables. Scientific Name: Pellaea rotundifolia Common Name: ButtonRead More

Blechnum gibbum (Silver Lady) – Fern plants

Blechnum gibbum (Commonly known as Silver Lady) is a small tree fern. It forms a neat, symmetrical rosette of fronds up to 36 inches long and 12 inches wide, which eventually crowns a scaly, black trunk up to 36 inches tall. The numerous leaflets of each frond are shiny green and slightly drooping. There areRead More

Staghorn Fern (Platycerium bifurcatum) – Fern plants

Staghorn Fern (Platycerium bifurcatum) is an ornamental houseplant. These fern grows up to 3 inches tall by 31 inches wide. It has two types of fronds. they are heart-shaped sterile fronds and arching grey-green fertile fronds. The sterile fronds are 5 – 18 inches long growing at the base of the plant and clasps theRead More

Asplenium bulbiferum – Fern plants

Asplenium bulbiferum (Commonly known as Mother spleenwort or Hen and chicken fern) is an evergreen fern. The versatile fern has dark green arching fronds which can grow up to 24 inches long and 9 inches wide and they grow on black stalks. Each frond is split into between twenty and thirty leaflets. The fronds produceRead More

Rabbit foot fern – Fern plants

Rabbit foot fern (Davallia fejeensis) is normally quite a low maintenance plant and is normally very easy to grow and great for beginner gardeners. It is distinguished by their furry rhizomes, which creep over the surface of the potting mixture and root down into it at regular intervals. The fur is composed of long, lightRead More