• Indigenous & endemic to New Zealand with their cultivars

• Ferns: distinctive group of plants often adapting well to shady conditions.

Asplenium bulbiferum – Hen & Chicken fern
– HEN AND CHICKEN FERN LEAVES
Asplenium bulbiferum ‘Maori Princess’ – Hen & Chicken fern cultivar
Asplenium oblongifolium – shining spleenwort
Blechnum chambersii – lance fern, nini, rereti
Blechnum discolor – crown fern, petipeti, piupiu
– WOODLAND GROUND COVER FERN PHOTO – CROWN FERN FROM ABOVE IMAGE
Blechnum fluviatile – creek fern, kiwikiwi, kiwakiwa, star fern
Blechnum novae-zealandiae – kio kio, gully fern, kiokio
Tree Ferns (Cyathea & Dicksonia) – visit feature gallery here
Cyathea dealbata – silver tree fern, ponga
Cyathea medullaris – black tree fern, mamaku
Cyathea smithii – ponga, Smith’s tree fern, soft tree fern
Dicksonia fibrosa – wheki-ponga, golden tree fern
Dicksonia squarrosa – NZ wheki tree fern
Marattia salicina – horseshoe / king fern, tawhiti para
Microsorum pustulatum – hounds tongue fern
– AS GROUND COVER BENAETH TREES
Polystichum richardii – prickly shield fern, pikopiko
Polystichum vestitum – prickly shield fern, punui
– WOODLAND FERN – PRICKLY FERN FROND UNDERSIDE – FERN FROND UNFURLING
Pteridium esculentum – bracken, rahurahu
– FRONDS CLOSE-UP PHOTOGRAPH