soft tree fern

soft tree fern

n (Plants) an Australian tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica, with a thick trunk and large spreading green fronds. Also called: Man fern

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soft tree fern - of Australia and Tasmania; often cultivated; hardy in cool climatesDicksonia antarcticatree fern - any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds; found especially in Australia and New Zealand; chiefly of the families Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from PolypodiaceaeDicksonia, genus Dicksonia - tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae