Cyrtomium falcatum Plasticity Fragrant Foliage Plants selected by Yucca Do Nursery

selected by Yucca Do Nursery because of its blue-grey leaves on a species whose foliage can range from light green to grey

purple to brown striped

000' elevation in Ping Wu (aka Penqwa)

We first discovered this sport of Hosta 'Blue Umbrellas' at Plant Delights in 1999 and after years of trials

Cyrtomium falcatum Plasticity Fragrant Foliage Plants selected by Yucca Do NurseryCyrtomium 'Plasticity' is a 2011 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of plant I spotted back in 2008, walking through the temperate house at the Missouri Botanic Garden. My eye was drawn to an obviously odd holly fern in the midst of a mass planting of Cyrtomium falcatum. Upon feeling up the foliage (still legal in Missouri at the time), it was obvious the ploidy (the number of chromosomes) was higher than normal. Instead of feeling like a normal holly