Polystichum tripteron Pinellia creamy pink backs and green

creamy pink backs and green inside

I'd grow this species for the leaves alone

each topped with a large wine-red spathe with dramatic white striping

silvery-blue leaves

Polystichum tripteron Pinellia creamy pink backs and greenPolystichum tripteron is one of our most admired and requested ferns, but unfortunately one that is always in short supply. This robust clump former hails from moist mountain woodlands in China, Japan, and Korea. In the garden, Trifid sword fern forms an attractive, 2' wide, deciduous clump of medium green fronds. The basal pair of pinnae (fern leaflets) got carried away and grew much longer than the other pinnae resulting in unusual fronds that look