This fern has a short creeping rhizome with upright arching fronds that form lax habit. The fishbone-like narrow fronds have red-brown stalks and oblong dark green lobed leaflets. The new growth is pinkish and plantlets are produced on the frond tips.

Hardiness zones 10 to 12

Adiantum caudatumis naturally found in tropical regions from India to the Philippines, New Guinea, Taiwan and China growing in well drained, fertile moist humus rich sandy soils. It prefers a shaded to a semi-shaded protected position and is frost and drought tender.

The Trailing Maidenhair Fern is grown for its foliage and is planted in shaded moist borders, rockeries and in rainforest settings. It is ideal for hanging baskets in a fernery establishing from plantlets in 2 to 3 years. It can be grown on the coast or in low mountain regions requiring a protected humid position. ID 2555

Adenium(a-Den-ee-um) caudatum(koor-da-tum)

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