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Dryopteris cycadina
Also called Blackwood Fern
Shaggy wood fern is a deciduous or semi-evergreen hardy fern with pale green fronds that darken with age, reaching about 60 cm tall. It is grown for its woodland look and needs shade and steady moisture.
Dryopteris cycadina, the shaggy shield fern or black wood fern, is a species of deciduous or semi-evergreen fern in the family Dryopteridaceae.
It is native to northern India, China, Taiwan and Japan. It grows to 60 cm (24 in) tall by 45 cm (18 in) wide, and produces pale green fronds maturing to dark green, on erect rhizomes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dryopteris cycadina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
