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Fern

mitokieta00598mitokieta00598 Posts: 1
in Problem solving
Hi recently the leaves of the ferns in my garden have started curling up quite grotesquely- not sure what it is. Can you help?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2023
    Hello @mitokieta00598  and welcome to the forum 😊 

    Could you have one of the prized crested forms of fern?



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Yes I wondered if that is a crested fern if so it's what it does!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    It looks more diseased than crested to me. Leaf curl is something that affects plants, but it is hard to search, as even "leaf curl" + fern + disease generates mostly hits for beautifully curled fern fronts. Is the fern one of the cyrtomium species? In https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002157
    Cyrtomium fortunei is mentioned as a plant that can suffer leaf curl.
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    edited December 2023
    It does look a bit like Cyrtomium.
    But I think it might not be (Cyrtomium) as they have alternate leaves.
    The image (cannot quite tell from the angle), appears to have opposite pairs. More like Blechnum?

    Don't know if that would have any bearing on the disease type.

    Edit :Anyone else spot the spider or ant?

    There are some areas with red blobs and a red split or vein on one or two bits?
    As @micearguers said I think it looks more like a leaf disease fungus, like when you get peach leaf curl that has red bumps,  or would a leaf sap sucking insect "help" the cause.


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