Matteuccia orientalis
Genus: Matteuccia
Species: orientalis
Variety: -
Plant Type: Evergreen Fern
The 'Oriental Fern' produces loose rosettes of fresh green, deeply cut sterile fronds that surround the shorter fertile fronds in it's centre. These ripen into long heads of decorative brown 'beads' in the winter. It likes to grow in good rich soil in dappled shade.