Asplenium bulbiferum (Hen and chickens fern)
Other names: Mother spleenwort, New Zealand common spleenwort
A. bulbiferum is an evergreen fern with soft, feathery dark green fronds.
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0.75m max. spread |
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0.75m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Arachniodes simplicior (East Indian holly fern)
Other names: Indian holly fern, Simplicior holly fern, Arachniodes simplicior 'Variegata', Variegated East Indian holly fern, Arachnoides aristata 'Variegata'
A. simplicior is a tender to half-hardy, slow-growing, evergreen fern bearing thick, glossy, broadly-triangular, dark green fronds divided into three or four pinnae (segments) with sharply-pointed pinnules and a prominent yellow or grey stripe down the centre of each pinnae.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Doodia media (Common rasp fern)
Other names: Rasp fern, Pukupuku, Hacksaw fern, Doodia australis
D. media is a tufted, borderline hardy, evergreen to semi-evergreen fern with arching, rough, leathery, lance-shaped, pinnate to pinnatifid, dark green fronds, red or pink when young.
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1.2m max. spread |
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0.4m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Cyrtomium fortunei (Fortune's cyrtomium)
Other names: Hardy Japanese holly fern
C. fortunei is an upright evergreen fern, with pale-green, broad, smooth fronds that do not look like a fern.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Woodwardia unigemmata (Asian chain fern)
W. unigemmata is a spreading, evergreen fern with arching, broadly lance-shaped, pinnate fronds, bright red when young, fading to brown, then maturing to green. Pinnae are curved, lance-shaped, and finely toothed.
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3m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Pteris cretica 'Wimsettii' (Cretan brake 'Wimsettii')
'Wimsettii' is a clump-forming, evergreen fern with arching, ovate or rounded, pinnate, light green fronds divided into lance-shaped, irregularly-lobed, crested pinnae.
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0.45m max. spread |
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0.45m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Blechnum chilense (Chilean hard fern )
Other names: Blechnum cordatum, Blechnum magellanicum
B. chilense is a large, evergreen fern with green, leathery, arching fronds and brown, scaly stalks.
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1m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Blechnum brasiliense 'Volcano' (Dwarf Brazilian tree fern 'Volcano')
Other names: Deer fern 'Volcano', Red Brazilian tree fern 'Volcano'
'Volcano' is a tender, evergreen fern with upright, pinnate, oblong to lance-shaped, fronds divided into toothed, linear pinnae. Fronds are bright red to reddish-purple when young.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.8m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Onychium japonicum (Carrot fern)
Other names: Claw fern, Sichuan lace, Onychium japonicum 'Sichuan Lace', Japanese claw fern
O. japonicum is a clump-forming, borderline hardy, deciduous fern with wiry, black stems bearing upright to arching, dark green, tripinnate fronds with feathery, finely-divided pinnae.
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1m max. spread |
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0.4m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Adiantum capillus-veneris (True maidenhair fern)
Other names: Capillaire, Dudder grass, Venus's hair, Venus maidenhair, Southern maidenhair, Black maidenhair, Maidenhair fern
A. capillus-veneris is a clump- or mat-forming, deciduous or evergreen fern with glossy, black stems bearing triangular fronds divided into numerous, fan-shaped segments.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
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