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Decades of detective work have not pinned down the exact parent species (some point to C

Hold a maidenhair under a running tap and the frond comes out dry

To grow one is to keep a piece of a vanishing forest alive

so a naturalized colony stays a colony

and a superb container subject that can be wheeled under cover farther north

Hypericum edisonianum 25/3 Restock Decades of detective work haveHypericum edisonianum is a Florida endemic with an upright, colony forming habit, sending up reddish brown stems clothed in small, leathery, gray green leaves and topped in the warm months with four petaled yellow flowers, each brushed with a dense tuft of stamens. As the stems age the bark peels away in thin strips, a subtle textural detail on a shrub that spreads by clonal growth into a low thicket. The plant carries a modern American name in an old