Flowers for the garden

Eastern ostrich fern

Мatteuccia orientalis

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Family Onocleaceae. Grows in coniferous and mixed forests in the southern Kurils, in Japan and China.

Slightly shorter than the common ostrich fern, usually not exceeding 120 cm; the spore-bearing leaves have longer petioles — in them the petioles are longer than the blades, and the pinnules of the sporophylls lack constrictions. Sterile leaves are not narrowed at the base.