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A splendid thing when grown as a houseplant. The new growth is tinged pinkish bronze. In the USA it is said to tolerate conditions in the warmer parts of zone 7,
so it might just about survive here. It is far too good looking to reduce it to bare survival! Protected by US Plant Patent, USPP9238. The patent says: "Inventor: Wim P. Tas, Aalsmeer, Netherlands. The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Fern, botanically known as Adiantum pubescens, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Bronze Venus. The new cultivar was discovered by me at Fernselect B.V., Aalsmeer, Holland, as a naturally occurring sport or mutation in a population of 50 plants of the species Adiantum pubescens. Fronds of Bronze Venus that are intermediate in development are lighter green than fronds of Adiantum pubescens that are intermediate in development. The lighter green color of the intermediate fronds gives plants of Bronze Venus a tricolor appearance compared to the bicolor appearance of plants of Adiantum pubescens. Fronds of Bronze Venus are more feathery in appearance than fronds of Adiantum pubescens as pinnules of Bronze Venus are longer, narrower and their abaxial margins are more finely serrated than pinnules of Adiantum pubescens." |
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| 15th May 2006 | ||
