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Botanical Name:Adiantum aethiopicum
Common Name:common maidenhair
Sold As:Tube ($2.00), 140 mm pot ($5.00)
Plant
Type(s):
Fern, Ground Cover (up to 30 cm), Popular (home), Popular (bulk)
Growing
Conditions:
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moist, Well Drained
Size
(HxW):
10-45 cm x spreading
Foliage:Delicate lacy pale yellow-green fronds, darkening as they age, on slender reddish-brown to black stems. Frond divided 2-3 times, final leaflets fan- to wedge-shaped, 3-12 mm x 3-13 mm, outer edge scalloped.
Flowers:Non-flowering. 1-4 large spore cases sunken into the lobe of leaflet and covered by kidney-shaped leaflet flap.
General
Comments:

Tufted perennial herb spreading from slender, scale-covered branching stems which creep both above and below ground to form a spreading groundcover.

Grow rapidly in autumn & spring. Likes moist well drained soils near creeks and in foothills in moist to dry forests.



Further
Information:
  1. Whitehorse Council
  2. Yarra Ranges Council (Victora, close to us)
  3. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (VICFLORA, technical, good photos)
  4. Wikipedia (free online encyclopedia)
  5. Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew UK, technical)
Plant
Propagation:

Propagation is from plant division or by spores.



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