Athyrium Niponicum Var. Pictum ‘Metallicum’ Japanese Painted Fern
Athyrium Niponicum Var. Pictum ‘Metallicum’ Japanese Painted Fern
Ferns produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil to expand into fronds. Ferns reproduce via spores they have neither seeds nor flowers, only complex leaves.
Ferns are widespread in their distribution, from rich tropical rainforests to the arctic.
Ferns live in an as wide variety of habitats, crevices in rock faces sheltered from the sun from remote mountain elevations to dry deserts, shady moist forests, bodies of water, open fields, acidic wetlands like bogs and swamps and on tropical trees as epiphytes.
In horticulture, ferns are grown as low maintenance shade tolerant landscape plants, indoor houseplants, in woodland garden forest floors and cut foliage for floral arrangements.
Grow in USDA zones 13 to 4.
Deer resistant.
Height x Width: 50cm x 30cm/ 20’’ x 12’’
Silver grey highlights on olive green foliage with reddish stems.
Fougère Peinte Japonaise.