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Cinnamon Fern

Osmunda cinnamomea

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35.1782, -80.8489

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Description:

large fronds, deciduous, sterile fronds are spreading and about 60 cm tall & 18 cm across, pinnate leaves 5–10 cm long and 2–2.5 cm wide, lobed but not quite bipinnate; fertile spore-bearing fronds are erect and shorter, 20–45 cm tall; they become cinnamon-colored, which gives the species its name.

Habitat:

shade garden

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PublishedOctober 21, 2015

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