Cyrtomium tukusicola Texas Native Plants This German introduction was discovered

This German introduction was discovered and named by the late Bob Hayes of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Bloodroot blooms very early in the year

Hardy bananas prefer lots of moisture and nutrition

18" long x 3" wide green leaves and forms a slowly spreading clump

Cyrtomium tukusicola Texas Native Plants This German introduction was discovered(aka: Cyrtomium macrophyllum var. tukusicola) Cyrtomium tukusicola hails from the mountains (3,000' 8,000' elevation) of Japan, Taiwan, and much of southern China, but is somehow mostly missing from garden cultivation. This apomictic (self gratifying and self cloning) species forms an 18" tall x 18" wide evergreen clump. While each pinna (fern leaf) is larger than most other holly ferns, there are far fewer of them for us, 2 4 on each side of the