Thus Mickel was planting treasures in her garden that came from his own in Briarcliff : a Himalayan fern, only one of three maidenhair ferns hardy to this area; a Dixie wood fern; and a ghost fern, a grayish cross between a Japanese painted fern and the native lady fern.
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""'Dryopteris marginalis " "', vernacularly known as the "'marginal shield fern "'or "'marginal wood fern "'is a perennial species of fern found in damp shady areas throughout eastern North America, from Texas to Minnesota and Newfoundland.
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My favorite for wildflowers is still the New England Wildflower Society ( 508-877-7630; catalog, $ 2.50 ) in Framingham, Mass ., a nonprofit conservation group offering more than 200 species of seeds and spores, from rare speckled wood lilies and dwarf fothergillas to the spectacular giant wood fern, Dryopteris goldieana.
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"We are fern-ishing Zarela's garden, " said John Mickel, the senior fern curator of the New York Botanical Garden, as he planted a big Mexican wood fern in the narrow garden behind Zarela Martinez's 19th-century town house, which was shaded by ailanthus trees with trunks as straight as telephone poles.
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Pioneer species associated with hammock disturbance include trees, shrubs, and herbs such as common nightshade ( " Solanum americanum " ), firebush, potatowood ( " Solanum erianthum " ), rougeplant ( " Rivina humilis " ), and wood fern ( " Dryopteris ludoviciana " ), as well as vines such as muscadine grape, and greenbrier.
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Originating from the family Dryopteridaceae, or wood ferns, the " Dryopteris shibipedis " is thought to be a hybridization between a sexual tetraploid providing a diploid egg and an apogamous diploid providing a diploid sperm . This meaning, the fern itself is considered a tetraploid-- having four sets of chromosomes, develops from the mother providing an egg with two sets of chromosomes and the father providing two sets of chromosomes.
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These include the cinnamon fern, which grows to between two and a half and five feet tall and has cinnamon-colored fertile fronds; the interrupted fern, a majestic plant that can reach eight feet tall; the crested wood fern, a handsome evergreen that grows to between one and three feet tall, and the Japanese painted fern, whose burgundy stems and striking gray, white and green-patterned fronds can grow to about a foot and a half.
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""'Dryopteris expansa " "', "'alpine buckler fern "', "'northern buckler-fern "'or "'spreading wood fern "', is a species of fern native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, south at high altitudes in mountains to Spain and Greece in southern Europe, to Japan in eastern Asia, and to central California in North America.
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Tassel fern ( " Polystichum polybletharum " ), with its unusual foliage, and the evergreen holly fern ( " Cyrtomium falcatum " ) and autumn fern ( " Dryopteris erythrosora " ) are among his favorites; so is wood fern ( " Thelypteris kunthii " ), more drought-tolerant than most, and Japanese painted fern ( " Athyrium nipponicum " ` pictum'), whose silvery-green foliage works well with dark green hostas.
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These include the cinnamon fern ( Osmunda cinnamomea ), which grows between two and a half to five feet tall and has cinnamon-colored fertile fronds; the interrupted fern ( Osmunda claytoniana ), a majestic plant that can reach eight feet tall; the crested wood fern ( Dryopteris crisata ), a handsome evergreen that grows between one and three feet tall, and the Japanese painted fern ( Athyrium niponicum Pictum ), whose burgundy stems and striking gray, white and green-patterned fronds can grow to about a foot and a half.
