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Lygodium venustum
Monarch climbing fern is a twining fern from tropical America, grown as a climber on a support. Its key feature is that the twining stem is actually a leaf rachis, and it needs a trellis and steady moisture.
Lygodium venustum, with no widely used common name other than climbing fern, which is applicable to all species of the genus Lygodium, is a fern native to tropical parts the Americas.
Lygodium venustum occurs from the southern half of Mexico and the Greater Antilles south through Central America and in South America as far south as Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and northern Argentina.
Lygodium heterodoxum · Japanese Climbing Fern · Climbing fern
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lygodium venustum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
