Todea barbara - Hard Todea
Ancient, rare and long lived, handsome fern with up-right, apple-green foliage. Mature plants form a basal, crown-like trunk.
Established plants are hardy in sun and dry. Frost tender. Nationally endangered.
Regionally restricted to the Far North where it grows under coastal Manuka scrub in moist, free-draining, semi-shade.
A must-have specimen for any serious, Northland native garden. Collectors fern.
Mature size
Height 1.5m
Spread 1.5mNotes
Very easily grown in any sunny, frost-free site. Will tolerant quite extreme conditions including very dry and very wet habitats but does best in a sunny, free draining soil. A well marked species quite unlike any other indigenous or cultivated species of fern present in New Zealand. We grow T. barbara from spores, so buying them from us is helping to maimtain a distinctive threatened species.