Pyrrosia lingua Hagoromo Nishiki New Zealand each topped with wide open

each topped with wide open

Flowering typically takes place in October and November

with lovely soft blue flowers

the leaf backs are prominently adorned with large spherical brown spore cases

Pyrrosia lingua Hagoromo Nishiki New Zealand each topped with wide openPyrrosia lingua 'Hagoromo Nishiki' is a rarely offered variegated Japanese selection of evergreen tongue fern. The 9" tall leaf is perched atop a 3" thin but sturdy stipe (the thingy that connects the leaf to the rhizome). Each fuzzy olive green, upright, cardboard textured, wavy edged leaf is heavily banded with chartreuse golden stripes. Pyrrosia lingua is an epiphytic fern (doesn't need soil), that spreads slowly via a thin ground surface rhizome.