Live tree fern

[voyager]

OK, I've had two requests for tree fern spores.
I am getting them ready to send out in the next few days.
If anyone else is interested PM me.
I'll send them all out at one time.

I trimmed off the older fronds that were yellowing and browning up yesterday.
The boxlike cups [indusia] that hold the spores had turned brown and had opened up spilling most of the spores.
I chose another frond, the oldest where the indusia have not begun to open.
They are still a yellowish color.
As the pinnules dry out they should begin to open and release the spores.

In my trying to positively ID this TF, it get a bit confusing as they seem to contradict themselves and each other in describing and naming them.
My originally calling it a C. menziesii now looks to be wrong. I now think it is a C. glaucum.

http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry...um_glaucum.pdf