Product Description:
Add dramatic texture and bright contrast to your shade garden with the Variegated Tongue Fern (Pyrrosia lingua 'Variegata'). This rare, slow-growing evergreen fern features thick, leathery, upright fronds that resemble a tongue—hence its common name. The lance-shaped leaves are uniquely variegated, emerging with stunning chartreuse-to-cream stripes that beautifully marble the deep green surface.
Add dramatic texture and bright contrast to your shade garden with the Variegated Tongue Fern (Pyrrosia lingua 'Variegata'). This rare, slow-growing evergreen fern features thick, leathery, upright fronds that resemble a tongue—hence its common name. The lance-shaped leaves are uniquely variegated, emerging with stunning chartreuse-to-cream stripes that beautifully marble the deep green surface.
As a highly versatile perennial, this Asian tongue fern brings year-round interest to dark spots, thriving in partial to full shade. Its creeping rhizomes form a dense, slow-spreading colony, making it an excellent, low-maintenance groundcover, rock garden accent, or unique container specimen.
Key Features:
- Stunning Variegation: Glossy, green leaves streaked with creamy-yellow markings.
- Evergreen Interest: Maintains its structured, upright foliage through winter.
- Unique Texture: Felted, cinnamon-tan undersides provide striking contrast.
- Low Maintenance & Durable: Drought-tolerant once established and deer-resistant.
- Hardy: Cold-hardy down to USDA Zone 7, making it a reliable perennial in temperate climates.
Care Instructions:
- Light: Part shade to full shade. Avoid harsh, direct afternoon sun.
- Water: Prefers well-drained soil and moderate moisture, but is drought-tolerant once established.
- Soil: Thrives in rich, acidic to neutral soil; ideal for rocky slopes or containers.
- Size: Grows 8–12 inches tall, spreading slowly.
Add this unique, hardy, and low-maintenance Variegated Tongue Fern to your collection today for a touch of tropical elegance in your woodland garden.