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A strange form with irregular leaves that are crested at the tip. I got it from John Trott at Mendip Bonsai Studio but the stock came originally from Shikoku Garden nursery in Japan. In 2005 Barry Yinger wrote in the Asiatica catalogue: "Pyrrosia hastata is a rock-dwelling fern of the mountains of Japan and Korea. The normal type has three lobes on each frond on a creeping rootstock. This rare Japanese form has a broad undivided frond with feathery lobes along the margin, somewhat feather-like. The much elaborated leaf is very attractive. Grown in orchid bark, well drained compost, or on a slab of bark. Reduce water in water." Plant Delights Nursery say in their catalogue: "This hard-to-find selection of tongue fern is also hard to describe. The fuzzy, green, tongue-shaped leaves look like what you would imagine if you stuck your tongue into an electrical socket. Each leaf has bizarre protuberances along the edge as if it had been cut with a pair of pinking shears. Although Pyrrosia lingua is usually epiphytic in the wild, spreading by a thin but almost woody rhizome, we have found it grows best in the garden if the soil is organically rich and the grade is sloped. Pyrrosia 'Hiryu' also makes an easy-to-grow container plant." |
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