Microsorum pustulatum, also known as Hound's Tongue and Kowaowao, is native to Australia and New Zealand, and common in our coastal and m...Read Moreontane areas. It is also common on all the three main islands, subantarctic islands, and on the Chatham islands. It is often epiphytic (growing on trees) usually in slightly drier areas. The glossy green fronds which vary in shape, are uncut and strapped in young plants, and once-cut on mature plants. They spread by fragmentation of the green and brown large, hairy rhizomes. Hound's Tongue Fern coming from the likened shape of a dog's tongue.
I mostly water it once a week. Under drifting shade in a pot. I bring it into the garage in winter. Lizards love to hide in it; when I wa...Read Moreter it they come scrambling out. Zone 9a, NE Florida
Castro Valley, CA (Zone 9a) | October 2004 | positive
Is epiphytic, glossy, bright green fronds, can vary in shape and size. Easy to grow, well-drained potting mix. best use 1 part course san...Read Mored/ 1 part pine bark/ 1 part peat moss, and charcoal/ can use bone meal 1 tbs to 3 parts mix. do not let dry completely. Restrict watering somewhat in winter, keep at 50-60F. rhizones best divided Feb-march.
Jacksonville, FL (Zone 9b) | September 2003 | positive
I've had one of these living outside for about 18 months now. Our temps dip down into the 20's & sometimes the teens but do not remain th...Read Moreere for more than several hours. This plant did very well.
This spring I divided it into 4 parts - one going back into the hanging basket which gets a good dose of afternoon sun. It has already outgrown the basket. I'm hoping I won't have to divide it again until the spring.
The other sections were planted into a chunk of hollow oak along with some bromeliads in an area that doesn't get as much sun & they have not done as well.
This fern is a climber of the wetter forests in South-Eastern Australia, often climbing on the stems of Soft Tree Ferns, Dicksonia antarc...Read Moretica. It's name of Kangaroo Fern, refers to the shape of the fronds. On a young plant, the fronds are unbranched, but eventually develop multiple broad pinnae. There is an intermediate stage, where some of the fronds have a single branch pinna on one side only. This frond shape then resembles a kangaroo's footprint, which has one long toe and one slighly shorter toe beside it. I pegged a piece of Kangaroo Fern, to the stem of my Soft Tree Fern some years ago, and it has thrived there ever since, now wrapping itself several times round the tree fern stem, and regularly producing spores, although no new plants have arisen. I water the tree fern stem in summer to keep it moist.
Microsorum pustulatum, also known as Hound's Tongue and Kowaowao, is native to Australia and New Zealand, and common in our coastal and m...Read More
I mostly water it once a week. Under drifting shade in a pot. I bring it into the garage in winter. Lizards love to hide in it; when I wa...Read More
The roots of my fern have a delicious almost tarragon fragrance.
Is epiphytic, glossy, bright green fronds, can vary in shape and size. Easy to grow, well-drained potting mix. best use 1 part course san...Read More
I've had one of these living outside for about 18 months now. Our temps dip down into the 20's & sometimes the teens but do not remain th...Read More
This fern is a climber of the wetter forests in South-Eastern Australia, often climbing on the stems of Soft Tree Ferns, Dicksonia antarc...Read More