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Pteridaceae

Adiantum cv. "Ocean spray" K. Presl.

  • Query IPNI
  • Common Name: 'Ocean Spray' Maidenhair Fern
  • Family: Pteridaceae Ching

  • Country of Origin:
  • Habitat:

  • Description: Very shapely cultivar between 'Pacific Maid' and 'Fritz-Luethii' with dense recurving fronds and medium small leaflets 1 cm wide, with veins running into the sinuses, fresh green, also the young fronds toothed and sometimes overlapping, on borwn black stalks. From San Francisco about 1958, claimed to be a sport of 'Pacific Maid' but may be clone of 'Fritz-Luethii' from Swiss spore.
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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500864
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 3204 - Adiantums
  • Qty: 2 confirmed on 04-11-2008
Classification:

  • Division: Ferns
  • Class: Polypodiopsida
  • SubClass:
  • Order: Polypodiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Pteridaceae
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