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Nephrolepis exultata ‘Suzy Wong’
Family: Nephrolepidaceae
Common Name(s): Suzy Wong Fern
Grown by: Kathy Till, Danville

Etymology:
Nephro - kidneylike
Lepis - scale, alluding to the shape of the spore body

Kathy Till brought in a drolly bizarre mutant fuzz ball ‘Suzy wong’ fern in a white porcelain facelike container looking like a wig which had mildewed when left too long near the shower stall. It is a superfinely multiplepinnatifid supercalafragilistic…you get the idea. The green foam that might have been in the frig from Ghostbusters..

Photo by Steve Morse