#venus hair fern
- Adiantum capillusveneris — A species of perennial fern in the Pteridaceae family, commonly known as Southern maidenhair fern or Venus's hair, with a subcosmopolitan distribution in temperate, subtropical, and warm tropical regions of the world. The plant grows structurally on moist limestone rocks, cascading fine, bipinnate or tripinnate fronds with glossy-black petioles resembling strands of hair, historically used in traditional medicine and phytotherapy for its demulcent properties.