This fern has a brown creeping branched rhizome with upright foliage and forms a clump. It has dark green divided fronds with pointed leaflets and the slender fertile fronds appear during summer.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11 

Pteris umbrosa is naturally found on the east coast of Australia from northern Queensland to Victoria growing in shaded rainforests or in damp jungle-like gullies along watercourses.

It prefers a semi-shaded humid position and grows in very well-drained organic rich sandy loam that is tending acidic and is drought and frost tender.

Jungle Brake is a popular fern that is grown around water features or in rainforest garden settings and as a container plant under for shaded courtyards. It is also planted in moist gully settings and in cold climates it is grown under glass or used as an indoor plant. It establishes for division in 1 to 2 years forming a neat clump. ID 1164

Pteris (TE-ris) umbrosa (um-BRO-sa)

Pteridaceae (TE-ri-de-AY-see-ee)
(Adiantaceae)