Tropical Zone Gardening: Invasives: The Hawai'i Hit List!, 1 by Metrosideros
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Metrosideros wrote: This is the infamous climbing Sword Fern, Nephrolepis multiflora. It was introduced in the early 1900's and in now everywhere in the Hawaiian Islands. It has even made it to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and is the only Fern recorded from some of the small Islets and Atolls. It invades all lowland environments, wet or dry, sunny or shady. It grows to over six ft. tall, and climbs trees! |