Chinese Brake
பெரணிപെറ്ററിസ് വിറ്റാറ്റটেরিস ভিট্টাটা
Pteris vittata L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
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- wide
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Pteridaceae
Also called Chinese Ladder Brake, Ladder brake, Ladder Brake, Ladder brake fern
Formerly Aspidium humile, Polypodium trapezoides, Pteris acuminatissima, Pteris alpinii, and 15 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Old World to SW. PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 蜈蚣草, 蜈蚣凤尾蕨, 蜈蚣蕨
- Simplified Chinese
- 蜈蚣草, 蜈蚣凤尾蕨
- Spanish
- filipodio cordobés, helecho de habichuela
- Tamil
- பெரணி
- Bangla
- টেরিস ভিট্টাটা
- Malayalam
- പെറ്ററിസ് വിറ്റാറ്റ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
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