Blechnum orientale
A large, vigorous terrestrial fern of open banks, roadsides and forest edges from southern China and India to northern Australia and the Pacific, with arching fronds that emerge pink to red. It is a light-hungry, fast grower that wants constant moisture at the roots rather than deep shade.
Where it grows wild
Grows on sunny or lightly shaded slopes, road cuts, stream banks and secondary forest edges, often colonising disturbed acidic soils. Habitat notes are from general knowledge of the species rather than a species-specific source.
Recorded from sea level to 1850 m, median 350 m; mostly a lowland plant.
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