Phlebodium aureum: Cabbage Palm Fern (Gold Foot Fern)

Phlebodium aureum, the Cabbage Palm Fern, Gold Foot Fern, or Rabbit's Foot Fern, is an epiphytic fern native to the Americas. It has a creeping, densely golden-scaly rhizome (the "foot") that crawls over branches and rocks. The fronds are large, simply pinnate, wavy-margined, and a distinctive glaucous blue-green. It is a striking, architectural epiphyte.

Plant Profile

This fern thrives in warm, humid, shaded to semi-shaded conditions as an epiphyte on trees, in baskets, or mounted. It can also grow terrestrially in well-drained, organic-rich soil. The golden rhizome is its namesake. It is drought-tolerant once established due to the rhizome scales. A bold, blue-green, epiphytic statement plant for frost-free gardens and conservatories.