Facts
Here are some cool facts that I found while researching about the Maidenhair Fern! Enjoy!
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It is widely grown in Victorian gardens, ferns are enjoying a renaissance of popularity.
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It is among the most beautiful of all ferns, "graceful" & "delicate" being the most recurring descriptors.
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Maidenhair fern is the source of a pleasantly aromatic volatile oil long used as a rinse or shampoo that rendered black hair very shiny, hence the name Maidenhair
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In Greek it means "not wetting", because when it rains the fronds shed the water, keeping them from getting wet.
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There are 200 species of ferns under Adiantum
