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Hart's-tongue fern

noun

Tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya. Synonyms: hart's-tongue, Olfersia cervina, Polybotria cervina, Polybotrya cervina.

Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds. Synonyms: Asplenium scolopendrium, hart's-tongue, Phyllitis scolopendrium.

Common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay. Synonyms: cow-tongue fern, Florida strap fern.

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"Hart's-tongue fern" Quotes from Famous Books

... shade of the brambles, the hart's-tongue fern extended its long blade of dark glossy green. By the decaying stoles the hardy fern flourished, under the trees on the mounds the lady fern could be found, and farther up nearer the wood the tall brake almost supplanted the bushes. Oak and ash boughs reached across: in the ash the wood-pigeons ...

— The Amateur Poacher • Richard Jefferies

Words linked to "Hart's-tongue fern" : Asplenium, fern, strap fern, genus Asplenium