Polypodium cambricum SEEDS

Polypodium cambricum spores grow into the southern polypody or Welsh polypody a rhizomatous fern native to the temperate biome of western Europe and the Mediterranean, from Ireland, Britain and the Iberian Peninsula east through the Mediterranean to Turkey and the Levant. Described by Linnaeus (1753). The epithet cambricum means ‘of Cambria’ (the Latin name for Wales), where early specimens were studied by British botanists. One of the most unusual European ferns in its seasonality it is summer-dormant and winter-growing, producing new fronds in autumn that persist through winter and spring before dying back in summer. RHS Award of Garden Merit. Produces distinctive, deeply pinnate-lobed fronds with elegantly pointed, yellow-green lobes. Family Polypodiaceae, Order Polypodiales.

Full sun to partial shade; dry to well-drained, calcareous soils; cool to warm temperate Mediterranean conditions; tolerates drought in summer dormancy. Spore germination: sterile humid substrate, weeks to months.

• ‘Cambricum’ = of Cambria/Wales; Linnaeus (1753); RHS Award of Garden Merit; elegant pointed frond lobes
• Summer-DORMANT, winter-growing opposite seasonality to most ferns; unusual and distinctive
• W. Europe, Mediterranean temperate biome; from Ireland and Britain to Turkey and Levant
• Spores (not seeds) sterile humid germination; Family Polypodiaceae (Order Polypodiales)
• Full sun to partial shade; calcareous soils; tolerates summer drought; Family Polypodiaceae

Polypodium cambricum is the southern polypody an elegant Mediterranean and Atlantic European fern with a uniquely reversed seasonality: dormant in summer and growing through winter and spring, its RHS Award of Garden Merit confirming its ornamental value as one of the most interesting European ferns for the winter garden.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.