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Rhapis excelsa (Bamboo palm)

Other names: Lady palm, Miniature fan palm, Fern rhapis, Ground rattan cane, Japanese peace palm, Slender lady palm, Chamaerops excelsa , Rhapis flabelliformis

R. excelsa is a small, clump-forming, evergreen palm with slender, erect, cane-like stems bearing long-stalked, deeply-lobed, dark green leaves and panicles of tiny, bowl-shaped, cream flowers in summer.
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4m max. spread

4m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Platycerium superbum (Giant staghorn fern)

Other names: Staghorn fern

P. superbum is a vigorous yet tender, evergreen, epiphytic fern with large, upright, rounded to kidney-shaped, deeply lobed, grey-green sterile fronds and long, pendent, wedge-shaped, forked, leathery, bright green fertile fronds.
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1.5m max. spread

2m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Osmunda regalis (Royal fern)

Other names: Rusty fern, Water fern, Osmund royal, King fern, Common flowering fern, Ditch fern, Buckhorn brake, Blooming fern, Herb christopher

O. regalis is a hardy fern, forming a large clump of bipinnate fronds with russet-brown spores at the tips. The fronds are flushed red in autumn.
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1m max. spread

2.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Osmunda regalis 'Purpurascens' (Royal fern 'Purpurascens' )

Other names: Buckhorn brake 'Purpurascens', Herb christopher 'Purpurascens', Blooming fern 'Purpurascens', Rusty fern 'Purpurascens', Osmund royal 'Purpurascens', King fern 'Purpurascens', Common flowering fern 'Purpurascens', Ditch fern 'Purpurascens', Water fern 'Purpurascens'

'Purpurascens' is a hardy, deciduous fern, forming a large clump of bipinnate, green fronds. The fiddleheads are flushed purple in spring and the fronds turn golden in the autumn.
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1.2m max. spread

2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Cyathea cooperi (Australian tree fern)

Other names: Scaly tree fern, Lacy tree fern, Giant scaly tree fern

C. cooperi is a tender, almost trunkless tree fern with large, open airy fronds and numerous pale chaffy scales on the leaf bases.
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2.5m max. spread

2.5m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Dicksonia squarrosa (Brown tree fern)

Other names: Wheki

D. squarrosa is a fast-growing evergreen tree fern with a thick reddish-brown, fibrous trunk and large, arching, deeply divided, dark-green fronds, darkly veined underneath.
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4m max. spread

4m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Cyathea smithii (Soft tree fern)

Other names: Katote, Golden tree fern

C. smithii is a tree fern with narrow, very light-green to golden yellow fronds bearing dark brown scales.
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3m max. spread

3m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Sambucus nigra f. laciniata (Cut-leaved elder)

Other names: Fern-leaved elder, Parsley-leaved elder, Sambucus nigra 'Laciniata', Lace-leaved elder

S. nigra f. laciniata is a large, bushy, deciduous shrub with finely-dissected, fern-like, palmate, mid-green leaves and, in early summer, flattened panicles of small, scented, creamy-white flowers followed by round, glossy black fruit.
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5m max. spread

5m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Dicksonia fibrosa (Golden tree fern)

Other names: Fibrous tree fern

D. fibrosa is an evergreen tree fern with a thick reddish-brown, fibrous trunk and large, arching, deeply divided, dark-green fronds. Due to the fronds being smaller than Dicksonia antarctica it is more suitable to the smaller garden or a courtyard setting.
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2m max. spread

2m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica (Fern-leaved clematis )

Other names: Clematis cirrhosa var. calycina, Clematis calycina, Minorca clematis, Winter-flowering clematis, Evergreen clematis

C. cirrhosa var. balearica is a fragrant, evergreen climber with small, glossy, dark-green leaves and cup-shaped cream flowers with reddish-maroon speckles and prominent cream anthers in late winter and early spring.
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1.5m max. spread

3m max. height

2-5 years to maturity