The Japanese painted fern is a deciduous fern of the family Athyriaceae native to eastern Asia, including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. It grows from a creeping rhizome into a tufted array of fronds thirty to seventy-five centimeters long; its widely grown cultivar Pictum produces gray-green fronds with reddish midribs, and both that cultivar and the related Silver Falls have received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It thrives in shady garden conditions and is grown almost exclusively as an ornamental.
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DietPhotosynthetic Autotroph 1 System (Realm) Relationship to PeopleFarmed or Commercially Raised 3 Living or Extinct Scientific Name Connections
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Source GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Athyrium niponicum
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1. Athyrium niponicum (Wikipedia)
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Athyrium niponicum
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Athyrium niponicum, the Japanese painted fern, is a species of fern native to eastern Asia.
View the Source2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (species profiles): Species profiles of Athyrium niponicum
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"terrestrial": true
3. Japanese Painted Fern (Wikipedia)
This is a commonly cultivated fern...bred to achieve midribs in many shades of redView the Source 4. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ113815762, descriptionView the Source Plant (Wikipedia)
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They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Athyrium niponicum
GBIF Backbone TaxonomyChild Taxon Of: Polypodiopsida, Taxon recordQuote, Child Taxon Of: Polypodiopsida, Taxon record
"class": "Polypodiopsida"
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