4" Fern, Asplenium Hurricane maranta White powder

White powder

magenta borders burning along the edges and down the midribs

but with deeply cupped edges

with a striking

ovate leaves of light green with offset pairs of deep green slashes make this plant also resemble her cousin "Rabbit Tracks" Maranta Kerchoviana Leuconeura

4" Fern, Asplenium Hurricane maranta White powderLike the view on a weather map of a raging hurricane with its eye in the center, the Asplenium Hurricane's fronds whirl and twirl clockwise, chasing each other in a perpetual race. Lustrous, apple green blades are deeply folded and leathery textured with ruffled edges. Hurricane is a low and slow growing fern but old timers can get up to 2' and maybe more. In the olden days, the Birdsnest fern was called "spleenwort" for its purported usefulness in