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Lygodium japonicum
Also called Vine Like Fern, Apanese Climbing Fern
Japanese climbing fern is a vigorous, twining fern that climbs by its vine-like leaf stalks and spreads by underground rhizomes; it is invasive in parts of the southeastern United States and Australia. The key to growing it is containing its spread and giving it moist soil and something to climb.
Lygodium japonicum is a species of fern that is known by the common names Japanese climbing fern and vine-like fern. It is native to eastern Asia, from Pakistan through India east to Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and south through southeastern Asia to New Guinea. The fern is present in the southeastern United States, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Australia as an introduced species.
Lygodium heterodoxum · Monarch Climbing Fern · Climbing fern
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
