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Sweetfern
Latin Name:
Comptonia peregrina
location:
performs poorly in zones warmer than 6
The Sweetfern, scientifically known as Comptonia peregrina, can be found more or less around performs poorly in zones warmer than 6. It usually looks like a deciduous shrub, making it a plant very different from others. In the summer, a special form of foliage appears, more or less alternate, deciduous leaves and in the automn it is more or less green to brown. The Sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina) grows flowers that are monoecious, with male and female flowers on the same plant and grows fruits, characterized as a cluster of small nutlets. Its bark is very interesting, where a special pattern can be found, old stems are on interesting copper or purplish color on it. An important thing to know on the way it is cultured is that full sun to partial shade However, a bad thing with the Sweetfern can be that hard to transplant and establish under cultivation A way to identify a Comptonia peregrina with its a low, deciduous colonizing plant. The Sweetfern's reproduction is very special since it performs it by root cuttings
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