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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2012, 02:10:38 PM »
Blechnum spicant, I reckon.
B. spicant
I thought of that too - it is one of the commoner ferns here - but I've never noticed that wide rosette of any B. spicant here.

Graham, you must solve this :)
Here is a picture of nipponicum: http://yuzawa-engei.net/11English/04Artemisia/Artemisia_page.html
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2012, 02:48:05 PM »
Link to  nice pic of the B. nipponicum, Trond.
It shows what I was trying to say... that the B. spicant leaf is linear while the  B. nipponicum leaf is lanceolate, fatter in the middle section.
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2012, 05:49:06 PM »
Some lovely plants on that site, Trond.  I won't be buying plants from Japan but it's nice to look.
Pusatilla sugawarii is fantastic.
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2012, 06:32:21 PM »
Blechnum spicant, I reckon.
B. spicant
I thought of that too - it is one of the commoner ferns here - but I've never noticed that wide rosette of any B. spicant here.

Graham, you must solve this :)
Here is a picture of nipponicum: http://yuzawa-engei.net/11English/04Artemisia/Artemisia_page.html

Hi Trond,
It is the wide rosette that made me wonder in the first place. I can't find any spicant photos that show it quite as obviously as does this one. But I can see what Maggi is saying about the leaf shape. It hasn't increased in several years either and I think that spicant increases quite quickly doesn't it.
The person I got it from hasn't bought any nipponicum so it can't be that.
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2012, 06:50:24 PM »
As well as being fatter, don't nipponicum leaves have more movement in them? The spicant ones are kind of stiff.

You have the fern growing very well , at a bit of an angle, in a confined space of the trough - would that not impact on the way it grows?
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2012, 08:51:29 PM »


You have the fern growing very well , at a bit of an angle, in a confined space of the trough - would that not impact on the way it grows?

Yes you are correct Maggi it was gently manouvered into a hole in the log, and is growing on a verticle plane and that might have some effect on it.
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2012, 08:59:43 PM »
Some pix here which show a rather circled growth and a pic of the reverse of a frond... may be helpful?
http://botany.cz/cs/blechnum-spicant/
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2012, 09:38:11 PM »
Thanks Maggi,
I will have a closer look tomorrow, its a bit dark outside at the moment ;)
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #23 on: January 24, 2012, 11:34:40 AM »
Some lovely plants on that site, Trond.  I won't be buying plants from Japan but it's nice to look.
Pusatilla sugawarii is fantastic.

I ordered some plants from them last autumn. It took exactly 1 week from the plants were shipped till I had them in my hand at home!


Maggi, I agree that the fronds are very similar to spicant.
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Re: Unknown fern
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2012, 04:51:05 PM »
Well, I've had a good look and I think from the photos the conclusion is it has to be B. spicant

Thanks Maggi and Hoy for taking the time to investigate.

Graham
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