Evergreen, height to 60cm.
A gorgeous fern with shiny evergreen sterile fronds, these give it the name of Christmas Ferns as they would be used to be bring some evergreen colour into North American homes in the depths of winter. Very cold hardy (I saw some wonderful examples of these in the adirondacks in upstate New York) and very shade tolerant as well. The fertile fronds are taller and have sori covering the top third of the frond. these fronds do die down in winter.
Easy in moisture retentive, well drained soils. They don't like drying out so give water in dry spells.

Polystichum acrostichoides- Christmas Fern P9 (0.5l) €5.00
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Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons