Pyrrosia lingua Hagoromo Nishiki New Zealand the leaf backs are prominently

the leaf backs are prominently adorned with large spherical brown spore cases

The plant was first propagated and introduced in the 1980s by the former Montrose Nursery

it can be cut to the ground

is one of the finest bell-shaped clematis ever introduced

castor bean-shaped leaves

Pyrrosia lingua Hagoromo Nishiki New Zealand the leaf backs are prominentlyPyrrosia lingua 'Hagoromo Nishiki' is a rarely offered variegated Japanese selection of evergreen tongue fern. The 9" tall leaf is perched atop a 3" thin but sturdy stipe (the thingy that connects the leaf to the rhizome). Each fuzzy olive green, upright, cardboard textured, wavy edged leaf is heavily banded with chartreuse golden stripes. Pyrrosia lingua is an epiphytic fern (doesn't need soil), that spreads slowly via a thin ground surface rhizome.