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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.
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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.
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]
Amauropelta noveboracensis, the New York fern, [3] is a perennial species of fern found throughout the eastern United States and Canada, from Louisiana to Newfoundland, but most concentrated within Appalachia and the Atlantic Northeast. New York ferns often forms spreading colonies within the forests they inhabit.
Sword fern is a common name for several ferns and may refer to: Nephrolepis, a tropical genus of ferns, especially: Nephrolepis exaltata, commonly cultivated as a houseplant, including the Boston fern; Polystichum, a cosmopolitan genus of ferns, especially: Polystichum munitum, native to western North America; Giant swordfern