A genus of ferns with delicate, feathery fronds commonly known as maidenhair ferns.
From Greek adiantos (unwetted, from a- 'not' + diantos 'wet'). Named because water doesn't wet the fronds.
Adiantum fronds have a special waxy coating that makes water bead up—Victorian gardeners were obsessed with growing these ferns as decoration because they looked impossibly delicate!
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