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 |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Woodwardia fimbriata (Giant chain fern)
W. fimbriata is a large evergreen fern with large, fairly erect, lance-shaped fronds.
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2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
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 |
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2.5m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Nephrolepis exaltata (Sword fern)
Other names: Boss fern, Boston fern, Ladder fern
N. exaltata is a tender, clump-forming, evergreen fern with erect to arching, linear, fronds with toothed, sickle-shaped, light green pinnae.
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2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Dicksonia antarctica (Soft tree fern)
Other names: Australian tree fern, Tasmanian tree fern, Woolly tree fern
D. antarctica is an evergreen tree fern with a thick reddish-brown, fibrous, trunk-like stem topped with a rosette of long, arching, glossy, deeply divided, dark-green fronds.
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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20-50 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 |
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2m max. height |
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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 |
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4m max. height |
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20-50 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 |
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2m max. height |
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10-20 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 |
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2.5m max. height |
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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 |
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3m max. height |
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20-50 Years to maturity |
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