Identifying a tree fern
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Identify fern with split frond
Comments (18)You know, homemommy, I am beginning to wonder if I am faced with something similar to a toxic reaction here. Just kidding, of course. However, I have a large bird-nest fern which now has a split-tail frond also!! I have lately done a lot of reading about ferns trying to identify the "fish-tail" or "turkey-tail" ferns in my outdoor garden, and here I have an inside fern trying to do the same thing. I'm wondering: is this a reaction to mistreatment, either too much water, not enough nutrients, times of drought like late last summer in Alabama, or maybe the sanding dust from my husband's porch construction efforts. I've gone so far as to submit the photos to the American Fern Society forums, so time will tell if anyone there has an AHA! moment. Never realized how much I truly enjoy having ferns around, until I started totalling up the ones I have in my yard. Outdoor ferns are the ones I cannot live without. Especially the Japanese holly ferns, the Kimberly Queens, the asparagus ferns, the foxtails. And the true asparagus officinalis is almost like a vine this year. I also have a West Indies variegated holly fern that I found up in Chelmsford MA which I still have in a pot here, but will send it outdoors in about a month....See MoreHelp identifying fern
Comments (1)A picture is necessary. Rgds...See MoreIdentify this Fern if you can Please
Comments (1)Looks like some type of Selaginella which, although not a fern, is closely related to ferns....See MorePlease identify this fern too
Comments (1)Looks like Royal Fern, Osmunda regalis...See MoreMatt G
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