Selaginella
Selaginella Selaginella, also known as Jiujiuhuan grass, can separate its roots from the soil by itself, curl up like a fist, move with the wind, be proud when it meets water, and its roots dig into the soil to find water. Because of its strong drought resistance, after a long drought, as long as the roots are soaked in water, they can be elongated again, hence the name. Selaginella is resistant to semi-shade and strong light, and grows vigorously in dark and scattered places.
Growth characteristics: Selaginella is unique. It has strong resistance to drought and "death" and can bring back the dead. As long as there is water, it will soon be full of vitality. Selaginella relies on the survival skills of living with water and dying without water. Selaginella not only did not die of drought, but also passed down from generation to generation, which is a miracle.
Ornamental features: Selaginella has graceful posture, low plant shape and overlapping green leaves, which is suitable for garden bonsai landscaping and rockery with high ornamental value.
Pteris aurea
Pteris aurea is an endangered and rare plant in China. Its rhizome is recumbent, stout, and its end is upturned. The exposed part is densely covered with long golden hair, which looks like the head of a golden dog, so it is called golden dog fern.
Growth characteristics: Pteris jinfengwei likes warm and humid environment with high air humidity, and the suitable growth temperature is 10 ~ 15℃ at night and 2 1 ~ 26℃ during the day. The air humidity should be kept at 60% ~ 80%; Air drying will scorch the leaves; When growing, I like scattering light, avoiding the hot sun and cold, and growing vigorously in dark corners.
Ornamental features: Golden-haired dog fern is lovely, golden in color, changeable in shape, long in petiole, and its leaves are arranged like feathers, especially when the leaves are stretched, which is very beautiful.
Venus' hair
Adiantum is one of the most widely cultivated ferns. Adiantum is a small and medium-sized terrestrial fern. Its rhizome is horizontal, with dense brown scales, and its petiole is slender and hard, like iron wire, hence the name Adiantum. The varieties are beautiful leaves, thin leaves, ladder leaves, hairy leaves and red bamboo.
Growth characteristics: Adiantum likes loose, permeable and fertile calcareous sandy loam, and the suitable growth temperature is 265,438+0-25℃ during the day, 65,438+02-65,438+05℃ at night and not lower than 5℃ in winter; I like bright scattered light, but I am afraid of direct sunlight; Extremely resistant to shade, it grows rapidly in dark corners.
Ornamental characteristics: Adiantum northeast has beautiful stem and leaf shape and small plant type, which is very suitable for small pot cultivation and rock bonsai decoration. Because the black petiole is slender and shiny, it looks like human hair, and its texture is very soft, like the soft hair of a girl, so it is also called "girl hair"; Its light green thin leaves with black and bright petioles are particularly elegant and erratic.
nephrite
Nephrite is an epiphytic or protophyte, with erect rhizomes, fluffy light brown long rhombic scales, thick filamentary stolons extending in all directions at the lower part, clustered dark brown leaves with a little luster, linear lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate leaves, and often densely arranged in strips.
Growth characteristics: Dryopteris nephrolepis likes warm and humid environment, the suitable growth temperature is 16℃-25℃, and it should not be lower than10℃ in winter; Like semi-shade, avoid direct light, not cold-resistant, more drought-resistant, barren-resistant.
Ornamental features: The leaves of ferns are green, feathered and elegant. Can decorate desks, coffee tables, windowsills, balconies, and can also be hung in guest rooms and study rooms to add a tropical rainforest atmosphere.
Boston fern
Boston fern is a popular potted foliage plant in recent years. It is a perennial fern with erect rhizomes, stolons, tufted leaves, slender compound leaves, drooping leaves after spreading, pinnately divided leaves twice, and ear-shaped deviation at the base of pinnacles.
Growth characteristics: the growth temperature of Pteris Boston is 15 ~ 25℃, and it can safely overwinter above 10℃ in winter. Resistant to strong light and shade, but it should not be placed in dark corners for a long time, and it is best to place it in a place with strong scattered light.
Ornamental characteristics: Boston fern leaves are slender, drooping and stretching, and green is gratifying. Suitable for potted plants to be hung indoors or cultivated vertically on the balcony. In addition, its creeping branches can be used as decorative materials.
Nest fern
Nest fern is a medium-sized epiphytic herb, belonging to Adiantaceae. Its plant height can reach 1.2 meters, its rhizome is short and erect, its marginal leaves are overgrown with underground stems, and its center forms a nest, hence the name. Scales are fluffy, linear, fibrous, curly at the top, with several curly long cilia at the edge, membranous and clustered leaves. The varieties are wrinkled leaves, serrated teeth, large scales, round-leaved nest ferns and so on.
Growth characteristics: nest fern is epiphytic on tree trunks, rock walls and other places, and likes high temperature, strong light and cold resistance.
Ornamental characteristics: the spore leaves of Pteris nidulans are nest-shaped, and the leaves are green and bright all year round, slender and graceful. It is a famous epiphytic foliage plant and is often used to make ornamental hanging pots. As the decoration of hotels and courtyards, it is often hung on outdoor scaffolding and forests in the southern courtyards.
club moss
Lycopodium, alias Lycopodium, Polypodiaceae, Jade cypress, etc. , a perennial herb of Lycopodium, is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine. Its stems are upright and forked, and its leaves are small, mostly needle-shaped.
Growth characteristics: Lycopodium grows in alpine meadow at an altitude of about 3000m, and likes warm and humid environment, and is resistant to shade, drought and cold.
Ornamental characteristics: Lycopodium is not only a precious medicinal material, but also has high ornamental value. Lycopodium plants have beautiful shapes, spreading branches and leaves and evergreen seasons. It is often used as a decorative landscaping plant for landscape bonsai, and can also be planted separately for viewing.
Pteridophytes are rich in species, changeable in shape and different in shape, evergreen in all seasons, with green branches and leaves, peculiar and elegant, and most of them are extremely shade-tolerant. They are suitable for cultivation and maintenance in dark corners and are the best ornament for indoor places with insufficient light. In addition, ferns can absorb indoor harmful gases and purify the air, so they are widely loved by flower lovers.