Botanical Name: Polypodium scouleri
Common Name: Leathery polypody
Type of Plant: fern: perennial
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape spreading, creeping fern with 1/2" thick, branching rhizomes, coarse blue-green foliage
Height to 18'
Spread to 6'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure in/out likes partial shade outdoors. Needs very bright light in
Soil prefers good drainage – not too fussy
Hardiness hardy outdoors – needs 50-60% humidity indoors
 
Morphology:
Leaves blue-green, pinnately lobed to pinnatifid to 18" long, 8" wide, pinnae to 3/4" wide rounded at apex
Flowers none
Fruit sori 1/8" diameter – near midrib
 
Propagation:
division of rhizomes, spores
 
Usage:
used as a foresty groundcover or in hanging pots – sometimes used as a tropical groundcover
 
Landscape Care:
Watering likes ample watering
Fertilizing balanced half-strength monthly in pots
Pruning remove dead fronds
Pests/Diseases scale
 
Origin: British Columbia/Northern California
Family: Polypodiaceae

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