Sabal palmetto Mocksville United States Hybrid Polystichum retrosopaleaceum is an easy-to-grow

Polystichum retrosopaleaceum is an easy-to-grow evergreen Japanese native that bears a striking resemblance to one of my other favorite ferns

5" long traps

beautifully mottled with lighter green and flesh-colored blotches

It will re-grown quite rapidly after division if they are promptly replanted and kept moist for the first few weeks

200' elevation

Sabal palmetto Mocksville United States Hybrid Polystichum retrosopaleaceum is an easy-to-growThanks to hardy palm grower Larry Green for sharing seed from the Sabal palmetto growing at his former family home in Mocksville, NC (1 hour southwest of Winston Salem). Larry tells us this Sabal palmetto was planted around 1980, and survived the mega death winter of 1984 85 in NC. Larry's palm was grown from seed he collected years earlier from a Sabal palmetto at a motel in Fayetteville, NC, which also still survives. The broad fronds are less