Ferns!

[dewy]

Aside from CPs and orchids, ferns are my newest love. So here’s a thread for me to boast about them. I’d also love to see any interesting ferns that people here are growing!
Some of my faves currently:

Microgramma cf. reptans

Elaphoglossum peltatum

Pecluma cf. filicula. A very new acquisition but maybe my favourite fern in my whole collection.

 

[Smilodonichthys]

I grow a bunch of temperate ferns. None are looking great right now but I'll post some when they do.

Here's a photo of Polypodium amorphum from last year. The pot cracked this winter so I'm going to have to redo it:

 

[dewy]

I grow a bunch of temperate ferns. None are looking great right now but I'll post some when they do.

Here's a photo of Polypodium amorphum from last year. The pot cracked this winter so I'm going to have to redo it:
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I really like that one. I should try getting into temperate ferns. Don’t have any right now

 

[31drew31]

I picked up a couple new starghorn ferns last summer from the premium exotics import that Kings Karnivores did. Took this photo yesterday when they were drip drying after watering.

 

[nepnewbie]

I picked up a couple new starghorn ferns last summer from the premium exotics import that Kings Karnivores did. Took this photo yesterday when they were drip drying after watering.

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Nice! Could you let us know what each of them are, from left to right? Curious minds need to know!

 

[31drew31]

Nice! Could you let us know what each of them are, from left to right? Curious minds need to know!

You bet! From left to right they're 'Ginka', madagascariense, veitchii 'High Finger' and willicknii 'Indo Mr.Tin'.

 

[Muckydoo]

This is just a simple little maiden's hair that I've had for six or seven years, but I see these little black marks on the back of the leaves. Is that the signs of spores forming?

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

Looks like it.

 

[dewy]

This is just a simple little maiden's hair that I've had for six or seven years, but I see these little black marks on the back of the leaves. Is that the signs of spores forming?

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Yup!

 

[dewy]

A very special fern. Unidentified filmy fern (my absolute favourite fern family) from Peru, probably Hymenophyllum species.

These are adapted to very wet and shady environments , and have leaves that at are so thin that they’re almost transparent, hence the family and genus names.

 

[Smilodonichthys]

Funny that you mention filmy ferns Dewy. On the weekend I went on a botanizing trip to the area around Tofino where I got to see Wright's Filmy Fern (Hymenophyllum wrightii). It has only been found in its gametophyte phase here and in Washington. The gametophytes produce gemmae and can spread around that way without a sporophyte phase. I'm hoping to find a sporophyte here on the island some day!

It's thought to be rare but we have been finding it in many places with suitable habitat. The gametophytes are very tiny and require a hand lens to locate. They grow on rotting wood in very dark areas in mostly old growth forest.

Hymenophyllum wrightii:

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

It's nice knowing people who like weird plants.

 

[Muckydoo]

No idea what kind of fern this is but it suddenly appeared in my shoebox terrarium. It's hard to see under it, but it certainly looks like it's growing right out of the piece of wood.