Shade Gardening: Who is beginning to take serious looks at the catalogs now?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Some wierd results here! Before I go into it, I think I remember getting excited at seeing the hard round capsules like you get on a tree fern, but that is a bit fuzzy so will have to look again this year with more results orientation! I just grow too much..

The larger more normal fronds have a mixture of pairs going up the pinnae, some 3 pairs, some 2, some with 1 pair +1 on its own. Some single ones too on the larger fronds, mainly on the pinnae near the tip. The very narrow fronds seem to have a mixture, a medium width 'normal' looking frond has singles. At first I thought the narrow ones had singles, the broad ones pairs, but it is strange there is a bit of everyting like it is mixed up about what it wants to be!

Also the shape of the spore capsules looks to be like a bent around 'C', nearly touching at the ends. All of the fronds only had spores on the top 1/3 or so, almost as if it was designed to send the spores away from the parent when the fronds died back in order to reproduce more successfully.