What are the characteristics of the rabbit's foot fern? These features are worth knowing

Polypodiales, Davalliaceae, Davallia

Dragon's claw fern, rabbit's foot fern, Latin scientific name: Dauallia bullata

The rabbit's foot fern is a small epiphytic fern, about 20 cm tall, with thick stems, and its branches trail outside the flower pot. The rhizome is exposed, with brown scales and hairs on the surface, like a rabbit's foot, so it is also called rabbit's foot fern. The leaves are broadly ovate-triangular, pinnately compound, leathery, glossy on the surface, smooth and dark green.

The rabbit's foot fern has high temperature requirements; it tolerates neither high nor low temperatures. The suitable growth temperature is 20°C-26°C. Above 30°C or below 15°C, growth slows or stops. In winter, it must not go below 5°C. The rabbit's foot fern likes a warm, dry environment and is not cold-tolerant; it likes loose, fertile, well-drained sandy loam. In winter it needs to be moved into a greenhouse to overwinter, with the greenhouse kept at about 5°C to prevent freezing.

The rabbit's foot fern is planted in tall pots or hanging baskets, and its creeping stems hang down, giving the whole plant a very graceful form; it can also be planted as a landscape plant beside rockeries and rocks, and is also very suitable as an accent plant in moss micro-landscapes. In addition, its rhizome can be used as medicine, with the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and dispelling wind and dampness.