Flower Venus hair: photo, home care

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Everyone without exception members of the family of ferns have unusual, subtle beauty. But the most graceful and delicate of these is the maidenhair (Venus hair).

It is no Coincidence that it is a very fragile plant compared with the lovely hair of the goddess of love. Its green, tender and lush foliage, which is based on elastic and thin stalks, beautiful swaying at even the slight movement of air.

After Reading this article, you can learn more information about the plant Venus hair: care at home, features of cultivation.

Adiantum capillus-venera

General information

Plant Care maidenhair requires the same patience and diligence, like hair care. In the process of growing in the conditions of his house, nourish, moisturize, trim and wash.

It Should be noted that this type of fern, in comparison with other plants, is of great advantage – when grown in the home he does not need a large amount of light. The flower thrives in partial shade, or shade. Proper care of this plant will allow for many years to enjoy patterned and greenery, decorating even the darkest corners of the house. There are many beautiful houseplants. Venus hair – the most tender and elegant of them.

Its Name comes from the Greek a diant, which means “wet”. This is due to the fact that the surface of the leaves as if coated with a film – they are not delayed with water, it immediately flows.

Venus hair in the crevices of rocks

A Little history

More than 200 years ago, the flower of Venus hair (photo presented in the article) settled in the home of man. Growers was immediately appreciated grace of the tracery of the leaves (their name – fronds). In those days it tender and sensitive to the quality of the air in the plant is not able to adapt in simple huts with stove heating. Maidenhair and other ferns grew only in conservatories and greenhouses of wealthy families.

Central heating has improved the air quality in apartments, so these flowers were used to adorn the room of the different houses. However, there has not been without problems: adversely affect the health of the fern dry air of apartments with Central heating. Today there are numerous ways to create the necessary plants for moisture, so wonderful maidenhair without any trouble, bred in the home.

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Habitat

Flower Venus hair – the brightest representative of the numerous and beautiful family of ferns. Its habitat in the wild – the lower mountain forests (tropical and subtropical). However, adiantum and adapted to mild temperate climate. He carries and light frost, but in severe cold it aboveground part dies.

Growing in a mountainous area

The plant Grows in the Crimea, the Northern Caucasus, in Central Asia, in the Mediterranean, in Europe, in the mountains of Africa and America. Maidenhair largely prefers mountainous terrain, wet and shady places. He can grow on stony ground. Settles waterfalls, river banks and in crevices of rocks.

Favorite place – limestone soil near a source of moisture.

Grades

Everything in nature there are approximately 2,000 ferns. Maidenhair is considered the most exquisite. Some species of it caught the fancy of growers in the original foliage. But the most popular among them is the maidenhair Venus hair (detailed description below).

  1. Adiantum macrophylla is a native of America. Has pointed leaves (length 30-50 cm) with unusual coloring. Young plants are painted in a reddish-pink color, but eventually turn green.
  2. Stoopidly Maidenhair (pedatum) is the most cold-hardy fern. On flexible stalks dark colors (length about 60 cm) is the umbrella small leaves, lobed on one side.
    Adiantum pedatum
  3. Adiantum melkosopochny (hispidulum) grows in the mountainous areas of India, Africa and Australia. Small diamond-shaped leaves, pubescent on the edges, located on brown stalks (length - 35 cm).
  4. Delicate Maidenhair (tenerum) – a very ornamental plant. Found in tropical America and the Antilles. Petioles black (length - 30 cm) is delicate pinnate leaves.
  5. Adiantum kidney-shaped (reniforme) is the most unusual variety in the family. On long flexible petioles it is a semicircular, similar to the shape of a horseshoe leaves. The sort of in the wild in the Canary Islands.
    adiantum reniforme

Description adiantum

Venus hair (see photo in article) – a perennial fern with a thin and curved rhizome, outside covered with scales brownish-black. The leaves are regular and opposite location. The petioles (length 25 cm) glossy, dark, base covered with scales.

The Leaves are small, green, can be tinged with gray. Plates rather broad, smooth, lobed. Meet trapezius,wedge-shaped and obovate, located on the petiole in the form of a fan.

Among adiantum there are species that are cultivated in the open ground. For example, the above stoopidly. The rooms are grown mostly Venus hair. However, it is fair to say that varieties such as maidenhair ruddy, transparent, and tender, also good for growing in the house.

leaves of the plant Venus hair

Growth

It grows Well representative of this species in partial shade, therefore, the most successful place is North or East side of the room (in the back of the room or window sill).

  1. The Plant does not tolerate a completely closed space, as it is always in need of fresh air.
  2. Does Not like drafts. When they flower may die.
  3. Do Not allow accumulation in indoor dust. Regularly need to clean with a damp cloth and often ventilate the area.

In addition, adversely on this flower affected by the contents in the air of any harmful substances. For example, do not tolerate it even tobacco smoke, and it adversely affects the locus in the kitchen. Optimal room temperature for adiantum - no more than 22 degrees Celsius in summer and not lower than +15 – winter.

Venus hair in the house

Requirements for the soil

The root of the plant has a surface location, so to grow, you can use a wide and shallow pot. The drainage layer should be thick enough. Ready the soil for the ferns can be purchased in the store, just need to add a little chopped moss, sphagnum and charcoal. Soil for flower Venus hair suitable nutrients, slightly acidic and porous. It should be quick to dry and absorbs water.

The Approximate composition of substrates:

  1. Added 2 parts of peat land, one part humus and leaf soil, and 1/2 part sand.
  2. Mix leaf mold and peat (3 parts), 2 parts of sod land, humus and sand (1 part);
  3. Mix ground sheet (3 parts) from peat land (2 parts), with compost and coarse sand (one part);
  4. Mix equal share of peat, sand and large the turf of the earth;
  5. Mix equal parts of pine bark, coconut fibers, leaf mold and humus.

Clock

The lady's hair, like other varieties, requires some care.

  1. A Plant is not very tolerant any moves, so the pot always needs to stand in one place.
  2. To improve the condition of the plant in the summer it must be active (daily) to spray warm water.
  3. In Winter the plant does not need water procedures, as they may have a detrimental effect on its development.
  4. In the spring and summer, it is advisable to carry out regular feeding with liquid fertilizer (2 times decrease specified in the instruction concentration). To produce this should be no more than 1 time in 3 weeks. Winter feeding is not necessary.

Venus hair – flower care which includes pruning affected leaves and yellowed. This must be done in the spring to make the plant neat. Also, this process stimulates the emergence of new, young leaves. After deleting the old green plant should be well watered and sprayed.

Irrigation

The Main rule of watering – moderation and regularity. The plant is adversely applies to waterlogging and overdrying. Therefore, it should be watered little and often. In spring and summer – three times a week in the autumn – less often, but winter – once in 7-10 days. Be sure that the top layer of soil dry out between waterings.

Remember that not stand Venus hair chlorinated water. It is best to use pooled and filtered.

plant Care

Rest Period

Adiantum, like all species of ferns, is expressed not so much as in other flowering plants. The period of rest – from November to March, when the growth just slows down. At this time do not need to hold any special events. Simply remove the pot from heating devices, provide high humidity and ambient light and to protect from drafts.

Also, Watering should be reduced (higher in the article, more detailed information about it).

Interesting facts

There are references about this flower in the writings of Pliny the elder (the Roman writer). It says that the healers of those times, noticing the resemblance of the plant foliage with curls, began to recommend it as a therapeutic agent for the hair.

In the Caucasus and today some people rinse hair infusions of the plant Venus hair. They believe that making the hair shiny. A decoction of the leaves of this flower in China is used in the treatment of tobacco and alcohol dependence.

Sam maidenhair, as noted above, does not tolerate tobacco or any other smoke.

Legends

There are several legends about the origin of the plants. One of them says that the place where the cliff fell a young beautiful girl made it to the waterfall. Her hair turned into a fern.

According to another legend the goddess of love, Venus, cutting off his hair, uttered a smallstrand, from which grew maidenhair. Hence its name.

There are many different beliefs about the flowering fern. Our ancestors believed that the fern blooms miraculously, on the eve of the summer solstice (Midsummer holiday) grows fiery flower, so bright that it's impossible even to watch. And it blooms only for a few seconds. Then the fire flower is broken by an unseen force. But man, hitting him before, can gain power over all. Ancestors could not understand how this plant reproduces. And so was born then like the legend of the fern, has a mysterious power.

However, science has been able to debunk the mystery of fern. Absolutely everything adiantum never bloom. Nature has provided for them the mechanism of reproduction by spores. They have this plants are produced from spring to autumn (around the edge of the leaves or at their tips, the Sori). They acquire as they Mature brownish color. Spores very small, like dust.

In conclusion

Creating the plant Venus hair the most suitable conditions, indulging all his whims and habits, you can get a wonderful emerald green patterned fronds.

This plant, it will decorate any corner of the house. It's amazing that such a delicate flower is content with even partial shade in the depths of space. Maidenhair and looks great on the windowsill, in hanging pots, and on a stand.


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