Pyrrosia petiolosa Taste of China North Carolina Native Plants black-green

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For us Lycoris 'Red Sprite' puts on a dazzling show

selected in the wilds of Arizona in 1974 by the late director of Arizona's Desert Botanical Garden

microcephala is native to wet grassy meadows and streamsides in serpentine

Pyrrosia petiolosa Taste of China North Carolina Native Plants black-greenPyrrosia petiolosa 'Taste of China' is a 2021 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of a new strain of the prized Chinese medicinal fern, Pyrrosia petiolosa. We originally imported this from China as Pyrrosia lingua, which was obviously incorrect, but when we keyed it out using Hovenkamp's 280 page Pyrrosia monograph, it took us to Pyrrosia petiolosa, albeit with larger foliage than we've seen on the Siberian forms. Our taxonomist, Zac Hill, said it was