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.