Question: Township of Mamakating, NY. Uprooted from New Rochelle, NY. Gardener who introduced it to NR lot called it a Christmas …
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Township of Mamakating, NY. Uprooted from New Rochelle, NY. Gardener who introduced it to NR lot called it a Christmas Fern. I have seen similar ferns in the tropics, where they grow much longer leaves of coarser texture. They, too, reproduce by spores. This plant has done much better than in New Rochelle in this lakeside location in a hillside rock garden. I cut one spore laden leaf hoping to propagate. Instructions?
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RoseMarieNin, good morning. Go Botany is a website dedicated for wild plants of the northeast. Cultivation is outside of the scope of topic and, perhaps more importantly, outside of my realm of expertise. That written, here are a couple of resources you might find useful for fern propagation: http://www.hardyferns.org/fern-info-propagation.php and https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/growing_ferns_from_spores . Good luck!
