Fern Encyclopedia

Adiantum caudatum (Trailing Maidenhair Fern)

Adiantum caudatum is a unique trailing maidenhair fern from Southeast Asia that reproduces by rooting plantlets at its frond tips, creating a 'walking' growth habit. Its delicate pinnate fronds emerge...

Adiantum caudatum (Trailing Maidenhair Fern)

Adiantum caudatum is a unique trailing maidenhair fern from Southeast Asia that reproduces by rooting plantlets at its frond tips, creating a 'walking' growth habit. Its delicate pinnate fronds emerge...

Adiantum capillus-veneris (Venus Maidenhair Fer...

Adiantum fern, Rhizomatous clumping, reaching 15-60 cm, native to Worldwide (cosmopolitan). 15-60 cm Rhizomatous clumping Worldwide (cosmopolitan) Photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributors. Click any image to view original. Vintage...

Adiantum capillus-veneris (Venus Maidenhair Fer...

Adiantum fern, Rhizomatous clumping, reaching 15-60 cm, native to Worldwide (cosmopolitan). 15-60 cm Rhizomatous clumping Worldwide (cosmopolitan) Photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributors. Click any image to view original. Vintage...

Sphaeropteris robusta (Robust Tree Fern)

Sphaeropteris robusta (syn. Cyathea robusta), the Robust Tree Fern, is a massive Melanesian species characterised by its notably thick trunk (18 to 30 centimetres diameter), reaching 6 to 15 metres...

Sphaeropteris robusta (Robust Tree Fern)

Sphaeropteris robusta (syn. Cyathea robusta), the Robust Tree Fern, is a massive Melanesian species characterised by its notably thick trunk (18 to 30 centimetres diameter), reaching 6 to 15 metres...

Sphaeropteris medullaris (Black Tree Fern)

Sphaeropteris medullaris (syn. Cyathea medullaris), mamaku or Black Tree Fern, is the tallest tree fern in New Zealand, reaching 15 to 20 metres with a jet-black stipe and rachis that...

Sphaeropteris medullaris (Black Tree Fern)

Sphaeropteris medullaris (syn. Cyathea medullaris), mamaku or Black Tree Fern, is the tallest tree fern in New Zealand, reaching 15 to 20 metres with a jet-black stipe and rachis that...

Sphaeropteris lepifera (Scaly Tree Fern)

Sphaeropteris lepifera (syn. Cyathea lepifera), the Scaly Tree Fern, is one of the largest tree ferns in the world, native to the subtropical and tropical forests of Taiwan, the Philippines,...

Sphaeropteris lepifera (Scaly Tree Fern)

Sphaeropteris lepifera (syn. Cyathea lepifera), the Scaly Tree Fern, is one of the largest tree ferns in the world, native to the subtropical and tropical forests of Taiwan, the Philippines,...

Sphaeropteris excelsa (Norfolk Island Tree Fern)

Sphaeropteris excelsa, the Norfolk Island Tree Fern, is a tree fern endemic to Norfolk Island in the southwestern Pacific, closely related to the widespread Australian Sphaeropteris cooperi and sometimes treated...

Sphaeropteris excelsa (Norfolk Island Tree Fern)

Sphaeropteris excelsa, the Norfolk Island Tree Fern, is a tree fern endemic to Norfolk Island in the southwestern Pacific, closely related to the widespread Australian Sphaeropteris cooperi and sometimes treated...