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Here's everything you need to know about Boston Ferns, from species, to pruning, potting, problems, and the fact that this Victorian favorite actually doesn't hail from the Northeast.
A Boston fern is easy to grow in the right conditions. It's a fast-growing houseplant that can be a perennial in gardens in zones 10 and warmer. I Just Bought a Boston Fern.
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Nephrolepis exaltata, known as the sword fern [1] or Boston fern, is a species of fern in the family Nephrolepidaceae. [3] It is native to the Americas. [ 1 ] This evergreen plant can reach as high as 40–90 centimetres (16–35 in), and in extreme cases up to 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in).
Nephrolepis is a genus of about 30 species of ferns.It is the only genus in the family Nephrolepidaceae, placed in the suborder Aspleniineae (eupolypods I) of the order Polypodiales in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). [1]
Nephrolepis obliterata, the Kimberley Queen fern or Australian swordfern, [1] is a species of fern in the family Nephrolepidaceae. [2] This fern originated in Australia, but is relatively easy to cultivate indoors worldwide. [3]
Nephrolepis cordifolia is an evergreen fern that grows to between 40 and 80 centimeters, in extreme cases up to 1 meter. It forms an underground rhizome in the form of several small tubers . The pinnate fronds are erect and pinnate linear to lanceolate, glandular and simple.
Sometimes called the potato fern, this is a large fern with an edible fleshy rhizome that is used as a food source by some indigenous peoples. The East-Asian genus Christensenia is named in honor of the Danish pteridologist Carl Christensen is an uncommon fern with distinctive fronds resembling a horse chestnut leaf, hence the species ...