Hello there, Plant- and part-size can be misleading as one sometimes gets gigantic, but ordinary plants. Stomatal size is a lot more important - but really...
... Such relative terms are useful once you know the taxa, but they do not convey the idea to not-knowers. We could use some measurement data here, I think. Of...
Dear All, So sorry for my lack of response on this topic - my time has been very much taken up with survey work on Trichomanes speciosum for the past 6 weeks....
Dear Koos, I see that my file on D. x critica is more than 3mb, and, since I don't have broadband, I will have difficulty in downloading and opening it (Steve...
Dear Koos, Please find attached a picture of the spores of D. x critica. I haven't studied stomatal length I'm afraid. I hope that this helps (in conjunction...
Yes, one definitely needs to check the degree of abortion of the spores before making a final decision re hybrids etc.! I was looking to see if I had recorded...
Yes, one definitely needs to check the degree of abortion of the spores before making a final decision re hybrids etc.! I was looking to see if I had recorded...
Does anyone know the exact status (or correct name) of these East-Asian species. On the internet I can find a lot of information as garden plants, but at the...
Dear Han The excellent website _http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/_ (http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/) and the accompanying CD provide the following ...
Dear John, It certainly does! Thank you. Recently P. polyblepharum is found as a garden escape on a wall in Holland too. But now there is a discussion over the...
Dear Han, Sorry I didn't see your posting as I'd not checked in the last couple of weeks. Yes, P. polyblepharum and P. tsus-simense are both perfectly good...
Well I must say I do find IPNI a pain-in-the-neck compared to Index Filicum! Can't find all the information one needs. I wish someone would do a complete...
Dear all, I was lucky to be able to make a quick get away from Kathmandu last weekend - just about had enough money left over to take a bus to Pokhara in...
Not sure if anyone noticed, but I meant the synonym of Pichisermollodes quasidivaricata is P. stracheyi (after the surveyor, Sir Richard Strachey), not P....
Dear Chris Thanks for this wonderfully evocative word-picture of fern trekking in Nepal, just what I needed to read after two hours watering on an unusually...
Dear Terry, Thanks for your kind comments. Interestingly your molluscan experience with Pteris wallichiana is exactly what happened to plants I brought back...
Many thanks for that account of your trip, Chris, you paint such an illuminating picture. It is something I would like to see for myself, particularly those...
What has happened to the Polypodiums? Here in Gloucestershire after a much colder than average winter and a cool dry spring I was expecting losses (I was not...
Well, Terry, what appears to be affecting Polypodiums in my garden in the outer NW London area, is drought, because we have had no decent rainfall since before...
Polypodium interjectum has only flushed properly in my garden in the last couple of weeks, and then only after having a few buckets of water thrown over it. In...
Dear Howard, Thanks for your comments. No, nothing to wonder about - the third subspecies is none other than subsp. wallichiana! I seem to have two further,...
Dear Martin, I'm interested to hear of Dryopteris stewartii doing OK in the dry. This is in keeping with its occurrence all over the dry part of the west and...
Dear Chris, Been there, done that! I think that it was 1993, when I did the complete circuit of the Annapurna range. It took me about three weeks. Of course, I...
Dear Ken, Great to hear of your trip up in the hills here, too - I see my 20,000 steps was somewhat exaggerated (unknowingly) - but it certainly felt like...
Dear Chris, Thanks for those very interesting notes. I hesitate to describe any part of my garden as 'dry', but of course in Hampshire we're not in one of the...
I have uploaded a file with the same name as this post, it contains photos of a mystery fern I bought at B&Q in Watford last month. At around the same time, a...
Yes, quite right - I don't mean dry, but in general garden plants are often more compact etc. than when at home in their more luxuriant native forest. In one...
Dear Howard, Yes, the B & Q fern is definitely D. lepidopoda! The scan of the whole frond (showing the lower part - always the most useful) shows it well and...
Hey, now I know where to get the Dryopteris lepidopoda I fancied growing! :-) But at that price perhaps I'll just add it to my World of Ferns shopping list for...
Dear Chris, Many thanks for your confirmation of the B&Q fern. And to Martin Rand, they certainly don't know what they've got. If the label on the pot was to...
