Tropical Zone Gardening: how many from Africa?, 1 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
No Kidding! my friend and I were having this debate about them, because my fern is completely different from what's sold here now. It is larger, and more cold tolerant. The biggest difference is the fronds/fiddles are bare naked compared to the Tree Ferns two other friends have. The fiddles are extremely hairy.
I have been trying to find out for some time now, in the meantime I go with the tag. Ironically the Home Depot here has caused me a few quandries as I have a giant bird of Paradise that is nothing like any of them here...turns out it is some S. African species.

So you think perhaps Australis? It is quite cold tolerant. it never blinked when we had a hard freeze a couple of years ago and defoliated the entire tropical parts of the garden.

Here is the fiddle picture