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Botanical Name:Pteris tremula
Common Name:australian brake , shaking brake , tender brake , tender brakefern
Sold As:Tube ($2.00)
Plant
Type(s):
Fern
Growing
Conditions:
Partial Shade, Shade
Moist, Well Drained
Size
(HxW):
0.6-1.5 m high
Foliage:Soft to firm triangular fronds, divided 2-4 times, to 50 cm wide, hairless or few hairs below on midveins. Oblong stalkless final segments, veins distant; margins finely toothed. Midrib red-brown with narrow deep groove. Long shiny red-brown stem.
Flowers:Non-flowering. Spore cases in narrow band along the underside on leaf margins, extending to base of segment and to tip. Partially covered by recurved margin flap when young.
General
Comments:
An attractive fern for ferneries, moist gullies and containers. It is fast-growing and easy to grow in cultivation, but can become weedy.


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


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