(First upload on April 3 2015. Last on June 6 2022) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Fern (シダ類) > Adiantaceae (ホウライシダ科) > Adiantum capillus-veneris
Adiantum L. (クジャクシダ)Houraishida (ホウライシダ, 蓬莱羊歯), common maidenhairLifeform: evergeen fern Distribution: cosmopolitan (= widespread in the tropical and temperate regions, south to Izu Peninsula, Japan). The original region is controversial Habitat: on rocks, including stone walls, and occasionally epiphytic |
Use: ornamental foliage plant after Edo Era → often escaped Synonyms (discarded):
Adiantum capillus-veneris L. f. lanyuanum W. C. Shieh |
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[1] at the bottom of a bank along Sophia Street, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on May 24 2019. [2] at a stone wall near Terukuni Shrine at the foot of Shiroyama nature road in Kagoshima City, southern Kyushu, on March 20 2015. [3/4] grown in a greenhouse, CAST, HU, on February 24 2017. [5] on a stone wall near Gokoku Temple (護国寺), Tokyo, on March 15 2017. [6] on stone steps to enter Kanda myoujin, shrine near Ochanomizu station, Tokyo, on December 15 2018. [7] at Sakuya Konohana Kan (咲くやこの花館) located in Osaka, western Japan, on February 6 2022.