Adiantum tenerum
A tropical American maidenhair of moist, shaded limestone ledges and grottoes, from southern Florida and the Caribbean through Mexico and Central America to northern South America. Its light green, fan-shaped pinnules are carried on arching to drooping fronds from a creeping rhizome. Cultivated forms such as 'Farleyense' are widely grown; the wild species wants warmth, shade, humid air and a limy, well-drained medium.
Where it grows wild
Restricted to moist, shaded limestone: ledges, sinkholes, grottoes and the walls of solution holes, where it roots into thin humus over the rock. In Florida it grows in the limestone sinks and hammocks of the south, a humid, sheltered microhabitat.
No elevation data were available. Most records are lowland (Florida and the Caribbean), but it also extends into foothill forest in Mexico, Central America and northern South America.
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