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Asplenium hookerianum

Asplenium hookerianum
Photo: leonperrie, CC BY 4.0
Family
Aspleniaceae (Spleenwort family)
Grows as
Fern
Native range
E. Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand
Climate
temperate

About

Asplenium hookerianum, commonly known as Hooker's spleenwort, rocklax and maidenhair fern, is a small fern native to New Zealand and Australia.

How to grow it

Asplenium hookerianum is easily grown and makes a good pot plant, though it is slow growing. It is prone to scale and mealy bug infestations. It is not commercially available.

Where it grows

Asplenium hookerianum is found in New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands) and Australia.

Other Asplenium plants

Black spleenwort · Asplenium aequibasis · Egyptian spleenwort · Asplenium anceps · Bird’s Nest Fern · Asplenium appendiculatum · Asplenium arcanum · Fern · Asplenium attenuatum · Eared Spleenwort · Bird's Nest Fern · Azorean Spleenwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asplenium hookerianum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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