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Specific Families and Genera => Ferns => Topic started by: Brian Ellis on June 07, 2012, 09:59:27 AM

Title: Lovely fern
Post by: Brian Ellis on June 07, 2012, 09:59:27 AM

Could one of you expert fernatics tell me what this one is please?  It was growing at the base of a wall in East Ruston Old Vicarage, I managed to bump into Alan Gray, but he couldn't remember offhand and the label had been appropriated!  I thought it was lovely as the downward pointing leaflets (?) gave it such a wonderful texture.

Title: Re: Lovely fern
Post by: annew on June 07, 2012, 11:51:24 AM

Polystichum setiferum "Plumosomultilobum'. I thought it was mine, just expanding in an almost identical position!

Title: Re: Lovely fern
Post by: Tim Ingram on June 07, 2012, 12:17:32 PM

Isn't it lovely Brian. After your post I had a look at 'Polystichum Cultivars' by J. W. Dyce (from BPS) and saw all sorts of wonderful variants of setiferum, but this one must be one of the most attractive.

Title: Re: Lovely fern
Post by: Brian Ellis on June 07, 2012, 02:16:11 PM

Thanks Anne, yes Tim it is beautiful, I will look out for one!