Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Pteris tremula |
| Common Name: | australian brake, shaking brake, tender brake, tender brakefern |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Fern |
| Growing Conditions: | Partial Shade, Shade
Moist, Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 0.6-1.5 m high |
| Foliage: | Soft to firm triangular fronds, divided 2-4 times, to 50 cm wide, hairless or few hairs below on midveins. Oblong stalkless final segments, veins distant; margins finely toothed. Midrib red-brown with narrow deep groove. Long shiny red-brown stem. |
| Flowers: | Non-flowering. Spore cases in narrow band along the underside on leaf margins, extending to base of segment and to tip. Partially covered by recurved margin flap when young. |
| General Comments: | An attractive fern for ferneries, moist gullies and containers. It is fast-growing and easy to grow in cultivation, but can become weedy. |
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