Doodia aspera
Prickly Rasp Fern is a medium-sized fern, with upright fronds reaching 20cm to 40cm high. Plants are long-lived and very hardy for a fern, forming colonies or stands and extending over many square metres.
Colonies may be more or less dense depending on the growing conditions. The fronds are a dull dark green, and covered with decorative patterning. New foliage is often paler, and develops through a variety of reddish colours. The fertile and sterile fronds look similar. Like all ferns, Prickly Rasp Fern does not produce flowers or fruit but reproduces via spores, borne in small circular sori that appear on the underside of the fronds.
All information is from the Growing Illawarra Natives website. Read the full entry here
Photo credit: Kath Gadd on the Growing Illawarra Natives website.
