Buy the Beautiful and Unique Gold Fern Plant - Pityrogramma chrysophylla

Description

Common name:

Gold Fern, Gold Dust Fern, Golden Fern

Category:

Ferns, Groundcovers, Indoor Plants

Family:

Polypodiaceae or Fern family

Light:

Semi shade, Shade growing

Water:

Normal, Can tolerate more

Primarily grown for:

Foliage

Flowering season:

Non Flowering

Foliage color:

Green, Yellow

Plant Height or length:

50 cms to 100 cms

Plant Spread or Width:

50 cms to 100 cms

Plant Form:

Spreading

Special Character:

• Auspicious or Feng Shui plant
• Rare Plant or difficult to get plant
• Good for Cut foliage
• Good for Edges ie very small hedge or border
• Hanging or weeping growth habit
• Grows best in humid and warm regions

Generally available in India in quantities of:

Less than ten

Plant Description:

- Origin - America, West Indies.
- What a plant to grow! Worth its weight in gold!
- Of graceful habit, with wide spreading tripinnate, somewhat fleshy fronds to 60 cm long, dull green above, thickly covered with golden yellow, waxy powder on the under side, carried on purplish brown channeled stalks, the young shoots also waxy golden - yellow.

Growing tips:

- Plants require high humidity and warm temperatures. Warm temperatures without the humidity - will immediately cause leaf shedding.
- Requires moist, well drained media.
- Keep in bright light. Both direct sunlight and low light not conducive.