Dryopteris remota 25/12 Restock the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist

the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist whom Linnaeus chose to commemorate

in keeping a living fossil alive

asplenioides

growing dense and rounded and asking little

or in a conservatory

Dryopteris remota 25/12 Restock the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacistDryopteris remota, the remote wood fern or scaly buckler fern, is one of those quiet accidents of nature that turns out better than anything a breeder set out to make. The fern is a naturally occurring hybrid between the scaly male fern, Dryopteris affinis, of western Europe and the British Isles, and the broad buckler fern, Dryopteris expansa, of cooler northern woods. From the affinis parent the hybrid took shaggy stalks thickly clothed in golden