| Scientific Name: | Blechnum gibbum 'Silver Lady' |
| Common Name: | Silver Lady fern, dwarf tree fern |
| Family Name: | Blechnaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern, Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Leathery, Glabrous, Bipinnate, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown, Apr-May |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Fronds once pinnate and form a symmetrical rosette, up to 1.2m long x 20cm wide, eventually produced on a scaly, black trunk; pinnae linear and sessile; separate similar looking spore bearing fronds except with narrower pinnae that form masses of sporangia in one long sori on each side of the costa ("midrib"). | |