Blechnum indicum
“Swamp Water Fern”
FERN TO 1 METRE TALLMedium to tall clumping fern, long creeping black rhizome & erect shiny green fronds with serrated leaf margins. Frost hardy. Excellent pool-side, frog pond, water feature plant or container plant. Stems & rhizomes are bush tucker.
| Suitability | |
|---|---|
| Category | Ferns |
| Family | Blechnaceae |
| Aspect | Full Sun / Filtered Sun |
| Soil | Waterlogged |
| Habitat | Wetlands |
| Features | |
| Bush Food Plants, Frog Plants, Wetland Plants | |
| Localities | |
| Acacia Ridge, Albion, Algester, Berrinba, Boondall, Calamvale, Darra, Deagon, Doboy, Drewvale, Ellengrove, Heathwood, Inala, Ipswich area, Larapinta, Lindum, Logan City, Lytton, Mayne, Meeandah, Myrtletown, Newstead, North Stradbroke Island, Nudgee, Nudgee Beach, Parkinson, Pinkenba, Richlands, South Stradbroke Island, Stretton, Sunshine Coast district, Upper Mt Gravatt, Wacol, Wishart, Woolloongabba | |
