Cyathea australis
Australian Tree Fern, Cyathea cooperi, Alsophila ...
Cyathea australis (Australian tree fern, Rough tree fern)
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Cyathea cooperi (Australian Tree Fern) - This is a fast growing tree fern that grows to 20 feet and spreads up to about 8 to 12 feet. The finely divided fronds rise out of the trunk and arch down as they get older.
Cyathea cooperi. AUSTRALIAN TREE FERN. Australia
CYATHEACEAE (Cyathea family) ...
Cyathea cooperi (Hook. ex F. Muell.) Domin
Synonyms
Alsophila australis R. Br. var. cervicalis F.M. BaileyAlsophila australis R. Br. var. excelsa F.M. BaileyAlsophila australis R. Br. var. pallida F.M. BaileyAlsophila cooperi Hook. ex F. Muell.
Australian Tree Fern
Scientific Name: Cyathea cooperii (F. Muell.) Domin
Synonym: Alsophila australis, Alsophila cooperi, Sphaeropteris cooperi
Family: Cyatheaceae ...
Cyatheales A. B. Frank
Hairs +; sori terminal on veins, indusiate, indusium with outer and inner parts; sporangium stalk ca 5 cells across; antheridium walls ³5 cells across.
For modelling of niche evolution, see Bystriakova et al. (2011).
Cyathea cooperi has a slender trunk usually about 3 - 6" thick, sometimes growing to 30' high, and puts on growth very quickly.
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The common name 'Australian tree fern' may also be used to refer to Cyathea cooperi and Cyathea australis.
The tree ferns (families Dicksoniaceae and Cyatheaceae) are the only living ferns of any commercial importance other than as ornamentals.
Silver Tree-fern (Cyathea)
This very handsome Fern, C. dealbata, known in New Zealand as the Silver Tree-fern, has a slender, almost black stem, 4 to 8 feet high, ending in a fine crown of fronds, dark green above and milk-white below.
Dicksonia is a genus of tree ferns in the order Cyatheales. It is regarded as related to Cyathea, but is considered more primitive, dating back at least to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
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Botanical name Various, commonest being Dicksonia and Cyathea
Group Perennial with fibrous, woody trunk
Planting time Spring
Height & spread Up to 6m (20ft) height (but usually much less); 5m (15ft) spread.
Grows best in partial shade. Also know as Cyathea australis, C. cooperi, Alsophila cooperi and Sphaeropteris cooperi. SelecTree lists no cultivars of australis.
& bold plant explorer Thomas Cooper, who studied & collected plants in the mid to late 1800s in Zulu territory & in the Drakensberg Mountains, eastern South Africa. Other South African plants that bare his name include Aloe cooperi, Cyathea ...
 See also: Fern, Tree Fern, May, Ferns, Green
  
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