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Scientific Name: | Dicksonia antarcticum |
Common Name: | Tasmanian tree fern |
Family Name: | Dicksoniaceae |
Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
Plant Type: | Fern, Semi-evergreen |
Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching, Upright |
Form: | Vase, Weeping |
Texture: | Very coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Specimen plant, Summer interest, Woodland margin |
Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade, Sheltered |
Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Whorled, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Tripinnate, Lanceolate, Pinnately lobed |
Flowers: | |
Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown, Oct-Nov |
Key ID Features: | |
Tree fern 2-3m tall with a fibrous, dark brown-black trunk 10-20cm wide; fronds tripinnate, 1-2(-3)m long. |