Botanical name:

Asplenium lamprophyllum

Common name(s):

About:

Similar to Asplenium bulbiferum, but distinguished by its creeping rhizomes and less divided fronds. This fern is found in coastal and lowland forests from North Cape to King Country and Wanganui. It thrives in damp, shady conditions and grows to a height of 20–25cm.

Natural habitat:

Coastal to montane. Mostly found within alluvial forest, always in shaded sites or on the buttresses of swamp trees, or in other forested areas on free draining soils, on clay banks, or on basalt or limestone rock outcrops and rock strewn ground. Usually forming carpet over extensive areas.

Growing environment:

Frost, Sun, Coastal & Free draining tolerant.

Endemic distribution:

New Zealand’s North Island from Te Paki south to near Wanganui and the northern Hawkes Bay but only common north of Mokau and Gisborne.

Height: 25cm

Flowering: N/A Spore producing

Fruiting: N/A

Uses:

Riparian plantings, Forests, Pioneer Plantings & Container friendly

How to grow:

Easily grown but tends to be rather slow. They do best in a semi-shaded site, planted within a deep, rich, free draining soil. A beautiful plant that deserves to be more widely cultivated.