Chinese name: Apple fern

Latin name: Matteuccia struthiopteris

Aliases: Cucumber Fragrance

Family: Ball fern,

Genus: Applefern

1. Morphological characteristics of apple fern

When apple fern is young, the rhizome is thick and fat, short and erect. Up to 100 cm in height, leaves open to oblanceolate at maturity, about 40 to 80 cm long, neatly arranged on both sides of the stem, with deep lobed edges, vegetative leaf petiole brown, leaves clustered, leaf veins clearly pinnate , The sporophyte is short oblanceolate, about 30 to 70 cm long, the pinna is rolled back to the back on both sides, and wraps the sporangium.

2. Habits of apple fern

Apple fern likes a humid and sunny growth environment, and prefers shade and humidity. It will lose water under high temperature for a long time, and the plant will wither or even wither. Dry coke does not have strict soil requirements. It grows well in fertile, loose, and permeable soil. It is cold-resistant, not drought-tolerant, and likes to be humid. It grows lushly in an environment with high air humidity, and the leaves are bright green.

3. Cultivation of apple ferns

To cultivate apple ferns, choose a shaded forest, loosen the soil, remove branches and stones, etc., then level the soil to make a border, and plant the plants in In the soil, after the seedlings grow, the soil should be loosened and weeded in time. Watering should be done according to the condition of the seedlings and the temperature. It should not be too much. Just keep the soil moist. Pay attention to the humidity of the air. Excessive management can be extensive management.

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