Japanese climbing fern
ലൈഗോഡിയം ജപോണികം
Lygodium japonicum (Thunb.) Sw.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 m
- wide
- —
Schizaeaceae
Also called Japanese Climbing Fern
Formerly Adiantum scandens, Davallia scandens, Hydroglossum dissectum, Hydroglossum japonicum, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to Caroline Is. (Palau)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 海金沙, 狭叶海金沙, 海金沙根
- Japanese
- カニクサ, ナガバカニクサ
- Dutch
- Japanse klimvaren
- Finnish
- kampakiipijäsaniainen
- Russian
- Лигодиум японский
- Chinese (China)
- 海金沙
- Korean
- 실고사리
- Swedish
- japansk klätterbräken
- Danish
- Japansk klatrebregne
- Polish
- wężówka japońska
- Thai
- กูดงอแง, ลิเภาญี่ปุ่น
- German
- Japanischer Kletterfarn
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lygodium japonicum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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