Dryopteris cycadina

Dryopteris cycadina, the shaggy shield fern or black wood fern, is a species of deciduous or semi-evergreen fern in the family Dryopteridaceae.

Dryopteris cycadina
D. cycadina, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Polypodiineae
Family:	Dryopteridaceae
Genus:	Dryopteris
Species:	D. cycadina
Binomial name
Dryopteris cycadina (Franch. & Sav.) C.Chr.

It is native to northern India, China, Taiwan and Japan. It grows to 60 cm (24 in) tall by 45 cm (18 in) wide, and produces pale green fronds maturing to dark green, on erect rhizomes.^[1]

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.^[2][3]