Improving indoor plant

I sell plants for charity. This house plant was donated today ( a phylebodium?). It’s completely pot bound , so leaves look extra long and are splayed rather than erect .
I plan to repot into larger pot. Will that improve its look ?

 

I bought one about 5 years ago.
Initially I put it somewhere with poor light and the leaves grew very long and lanky, rather like the one you have.
So I moved it closer to the (south facing) patio doors so it's now about 10ft from them and gets much more light and is growing very well.
They produce lots of 'pups' (?) on the surface of the compost which can easily be removed and potted up to produce new plants.
I did repot it about a year ago and it very quickly filled the new pot so needs repotting again now, but it's late in the season so I'll leave it until Spring.

 

Thanks Pete 8, very informative. I have potted it on however considering your comments, I think I need to repot again - as not left enough room for growth.

 

Good luck.
If you can give yours more light then hopefully new leaves will be less lanky.

 

It's a Phlebodium aureum Blue Star, a very nice houseplant but can get quite big. It tends to form sort of hairy rhizomes on the surface and sides of the pot, I have never managed to propagate from those.

It indeed grows better in good light.

 

I look for a bit of hairy rhizome that shows signs of emerging roots underneath and a leaf on top and either snap it off or cut it off.
Nestle it into the surface of a pot of compost with about 40% perlite and leave somewhere out of direct sun and water a little when needed. I left mine on the greenhouse floor.
I done 3 in March and gave them to neighbours a month or so ago. All had 3 or 4 leaves and seemed fine little plants. Even the chilly March temps didn't seem to faze them.

 

Is that similar to what we called the rabbit's foot fern?

 

Thanks for all the helpful advice. Can I ask if the colour of the plant in the picture is indicative of the normal colour - it looks washed out to me.

 

Yes that's how it looks.
It's a sort of blue-green and the leaves have a slightly waxy/powdery coating.

I believe it's often called the Blue Fern due to its colour.

 

Many thanks Pete 8!