Austral King Fern
SIZES AVAILABLE:
Propagated specimens with foliage
12in / 15 lt pots (no crowns)
12in / 15 lt pots (with small crowns)
The Todea Barbara is from a very old family of ferns called Osmundaceae and its primitive characteristics have changed little over the years. Fossils of this family have been found in rocks of the late Palaeozioic era, (approximately 250 million years ago) when the sailback reptiles such as Dimentrodon walked on the earth. The first dinosaurs appeared 5 million years later in the Triassic Period (approximately 245 million years ago).
The Austral King Fern is not a true tree fern. The fronds are narrower, it has a short, thick fibrous trunk and it grows numerous crowns each with its own fronds on the one plant as it ages.
The Todea Barbara only grows in the Southern Hemisphere and can be found in Victoria, Tasmania, NSW and Queensland in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It usually grows in forest or scrubland, along stream banks, in soaks on the lower slopes of mountains or in fern gullies on the flat areas near creeks. It is a slow-growing and long-lived plant. Hardy and reliable.
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