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Rumohra adiantiformis
Also called Leather Fern, Seven Weeks Fern, Leatherleaf Fern, Knysna Fern, Leathery Shield Fern, Thirty Days Fern, Climbing Shield Fern
Iron fern (Rumohra adiantiformis) is a bushy, tufted evergreen fern growing to about 90 cm with glossy dark green fronds, widely grown as a groundcover, cut foliage, and houseplant. It does best in warm, humid conditions with bright light and protection from frost.
Rumohra adiantiformis, the leather fern or leatherleaf fern, is a species of fern in the wood fern family Dryopteridaceae. It has a wide distribution, mainly in the tropical Southern Hemisphere.
The fern is cultivated as an ornamental plant for groundcover and in floristry. As it is a tropical plant with only limited protection against frost, in temperate climates it is normally grown under glass as a houseplant.
In the UK it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Rumohra adiantiformis is native to South America, the Caribbean, southern Africa, the Western Indian Ocean islands, Papua New Guinea, and Australasia. Countries it is native to include such diverse places as Brazil and Colombia, the Galápagos Islands, the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean, Zimbabwe and South Africa Australia, and New Zealand.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rumohra adiantiformis 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.
