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black maidenhair fern
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black maidenhair fern

Adiantum capillus-veneris

Adiantum capillus-veneris, the Southern maidenhair fern, black maidenhair fern, maidenhair fern, and venus hair fern, is a species of ferns in the genus Adiantum and the family Pteridaceae with a subcosmopolitan worldwide distribution. It is cultivated as a popular garden fern and houseplant.

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

black maidenhair fern in The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation

The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation

Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.265

black maidenhair fern in The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs

The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs

1532 · p.93

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 63916.