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Cymraeg
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Dicksonia antarctica
Common name:
Coedredynen Awstralia, Soft Tree Fern, Australian Tree Fern, Tasmanian Tree Fern, Woolly Tree Fern
Family:
Dicksoniaceae
Distribution:
Australia, Tasmania
Hardiness:
(H3) Half-hardy. Unheated glasshouse/mild winter 1 to -5°C (USDA 9b/10a)
Life form:
Fern • Rhedynen
Usage:
Ornamental
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
Dicksonia (dik-so-nee-uh): Named for James Dickson (1738–1822), a Scottish nurseryman and naturalist.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
antarctica (ant-ARK-tee-kuh): Of or from the Antarctic region.
Description:
An evergreen tree fern, but deciduous in colder areas, growing slowly to 4 metres in height, with a stout reddish-brown stem and a terminal rosette of arching, deeply divided, glossy dark green fronds to 3 metres in length.
Locations
1:
Wallace Garden-Timeline/Gardd Wallace-Llinell Amser 10
(WAL10)
• Accession: 2020-0428*A • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
Area
Individual