Pteridomania

"Gathering Ferns" (Helen Allingham) from The Illustrated London News, July 1871

Pteridomania or fern fever was a Victorian craze for ferns. Decorative arts of the period presented the fern motif in pottery, glass, metal, textiles, wood, printed paper, and sculpture, with ferns "appearing on everything from christening presents to gravestones and memorials".[1]}