While in some areas of the country Cinnamon Fern may reach heights of 5 feet, it doesn't get quite that tall in Minnesota. Fertile fronds the color of cinnamon grow from the center of these ferns in late spring.
Let’s get started! BAD FERN! Set in the middle of its base, the plant erects sentinels of fertile cinnamon-colored frond-spikes. Osmunda cinnamomea is a FERN growing to 0.6 m (2ft) by 0.4 m (1ft 4in) at a medium rate. Peterson. Cinnamon fern (O. cinnamomea) takes its name from the erect, 36-inch-tall, reddish-brown spore-bearing fronds that grow in the center of light green fronds that can reach 5 feet tall in a 24-inch-wide clump. Fern leaves, which are called fronds, grow from underground rhizomes. The osmunda fern family includes just three genera. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. While most ferns average between one and three feet tall and wide, some, such as resurrection fern, grow only a few inches tall. While in some areas of the country Cinnamon Fern may reach heights of 5 feet, it doesn't get quite that tall in Minnesota. You searched for: cinnamon fern! Also, the pinnae (leaflets) of the … It prefers moist or wet soil. Hardy Zones 4-8. Water … This native fern is common nearly throughout Florida (Wunderlin, 2003). Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils. Since the leaves, size and overall structure of Interrupted Fern, Cinnamon Fern and Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) closely resemble each other, they can most easily be distinguished by the fruiting fertile fronds—Interrupted Fern's spores are in the middle of a leaf where the other two are on separate stems. Texas Redbud. The species likens the unique orange colored sporangia with that of the spice, cinnamon. Ferns. The name for this fern comes from the cinnamon-colored spores that develop on the fronds. The Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea), is a North American native that is especially adapted to wet areas where it will produce an exuberant upright bouquet of 2 to 5 foot high fronds. Swamps. It was derived from the name of an ancient Saxon god, Osmunder. Most ferns are slow growing and can take several years to reach their mature size. Cinnamon fern is found in the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada, from Texas and Florida to to Quebec and Newfoundland. I don't fully remember how this problem began. 48 members have or want this plant for trade. But I do know it is one that has been neglected for a couple of years and by the end of spring I had procrastinated long enough.
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