Adiantum cuneatum

Common name: Hair of Venus, Maidenhair Fern

Description:

The Maidenhair ( Adiantum cuneatum ) is a fern belonging to the Pteridaceae Family.

It is a perennial herbaceous plant up to 50 cm tall, with a long, creeping rhizome. It usually grows on rocky walls of sources and shady places.

Culture:

Shade or semi-shade. Abundant watering with constant humidity. It requires loose, fresh, neutral or limestone soils. It cannot grow in acid soils.

It should grow in areas where the temperature is -5ºC.

Very abundant watering and high relative humidity, place the pot with the fern on a plate with pebbles and water. You can also spray.

Multiplication:

By spores in spring.

Applications:

Ornamental use in flowerpots or in flower beds indoors.