Hawaii's Most Invasive Horticultural Plants

   
mule's foot fern
Angiopteris evecta

(Photo credit: NTBG)

 

(Photo credit: Gerald D. Carr)


Other names:giant fern
Description: Giant fern up to 10' tall, with massive stem covered in leaf scars, twice-pinnately compound fronds 5-20' long, linear to lance-shaped leaflets, and spores in two brown rows inside margin on underside.
Risk areas: Moist forest and rain forest and low to middle elevations.
WARNING:Spores are dispersed by wind and spread this fern into native forests.

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