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Scientific Name: | Rumohra adiantiformis |
Common Name: | leatherleaf fern |
Family Name: | Dryopteridaceae |
Origin: | Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Central America, South America |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
Plant Type: | Fern, Indoor foliage plant |
Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching |
Form: | Weeping |
Texture: | Medium - coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Floristry |
Exposure: | Filtered shade |
Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich |
Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Leathery, Lustrous, Bipinnate, Tripinnate, Deltoid, Lanceolate, Oblong, Ovate, Dentate, Serrate |
Flowers: | |
Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Black |
Key ID Features: | |
The main fern used in flower arrangements; fronds triangular-shaped, leathery, shiny (plastic-like), most 30-90cm long x 15-75cm wide, bipinnately compound (some larger pinnare may be divided further), pinnae alternating, most lanceolate, 2-5cm long, coursely toothed; sori round, orange then black. |