| Description | Lemon Button Fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia 'Duffii') can be grown as an indoor foliage plant or outdoors during the growing season. Is tropical and will not handle frosts. |
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| Pronunciation | (neh-FROL-eh-piss) (kor-dih-FOH-lee-uh) |
| Plant Type | Indoor Foliage, Ferns - Tropical, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 10-12 |
| Sunlight | part shade, shade, bright indirect |
| Moisture | average, on the dry side |
| Flowers | nonflowering |
| Fruit | spores |
| Leaves | green, evergreen fronds, pinnately compound with roundish to heart-shaped pinna with small serrate margins, alternately arranged, lemon scented when crushed |
| Stems | rhizomes |
| Dimensions | around 12 by 12 inches (HS), spreads at a moderate by fronds arising from the rhizoms |
| Maintenance | dividing when it fills out the growing container |
| Propagation | division |
| Native Site | tropical Asia and New Zealand |
| Misc Facts | AKA: Duffy Fern |
| Author's Notes | I grew this fern a few seasons in a 6 to 8 inch clay pot. Very easy to grow. |
| Notes & Reference | #23-Indoor Ferns (Boy Altman), Looking at Plants (www.looking-at-plants.com/home) |
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