Cyrtomium falcatum
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Cyrtomium falcatum is a species of fern
known by the common name Japanese holly fern. It is native to eastern Asia
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It grows from crevices, coastal cliffs, streambanks, rocky slopes, and other moist, stable areas.
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Cyrtomium falcatum has leaves exceeding 0.5 metres (1.6 ft) in length made up of six to ten pairs of shiny bright green leaflets. Each leathery leaflet has a flat to wavy to slightly toothed margin and a netlike pattern of veining. The underside of each leaflet has sori
beneath brown or black indusia.
Cultivation
Cyrtomium falcatum is a popular ornamental plant
in temperate climate gardens, and a house plant.
It has escaped from cultivation on other continents to become established in the wild as an introduced species
. It can now be found in much of Europe, and in North America.
Fern
A fern is any one of a group of about 12,000 species of plants belonging to the botanical group known as Pteridophyta. Unlike mosses, they have xylem and phloem . They have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants...
known by the common name Japanese holly fern. It is native to eastern Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
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It grows from crevices, coastal cliffs, streambanks, rocky slopes, and other moist, stable areas.
Description
This fern is is a perennial plant with a large light brown rhizomeRhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a characteristically horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes...
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Cyrtomium falcatum has leaves exceeding 0.5 metres (1.6 ft) in length made up of six to ten pairs of shiny bright green leaflets. Each leathery leaflet has a flat to wavy to slightly toothed margin and a netlike pattern of veining. The underside of each leaflet has sori
Sorus
A sorus is a cluster of sporangia .In fungi and lichens, the sorus is surrounded by an external layer. In some red algae it may take the form of a depression into the thallus....
beneath brown or black indusia.
Cultivation
Cyrtomium falcatum is a popular ornamental plant
Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display...
in temperate climate gardens, and a house plant.
It has escaped from cultivation on other continents to become established in the wild as an introduced species
Introduced species
An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...
. It can now be found in much of Europe, and in North America.