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Fern Friday: Soft Tree Fern
The soft tree fern (Cyathea smithii) is a native plant of New Zealand, which is called katote by the Maori.
SciArt by Walter Hood Fitch for Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843, Vol. 2, Part 2 (1855).
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Plant of the Day
Friday 17 January 2025
In my friend’s tropically inspired garden in Essex, UK, there was a magnificent clump of Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata' (cast iron plant) alongside Dicksonia antarctica (soft tree fern) and Fatsia japonica 'Variegata' (false castor oil plant). This evergreen perennial creates a clump of leathery, long, dark green leaves with irregularly stripes of creamy-white. This plant needs shade and a relatively frost-free enviroment.
Jill Raggett
Soft tree fern
Photographer - shy-girl04 : 2024
dicksonia antarctica - soft tree fern/tasmanian tree fern
