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Culturally
Among the many bottlebrushes
where the whole herb
Tough and undemanding
opened Western eyes to the wild
Adiantum hispidulum Large Shrubs CulturallyMaidenhairs take their English name from their stems, those fine black wiry stalks like strands of dark hair, and their Latin name from a quieter trick. Adiantum comes from the Greek adiantos, the unwetted one, because water will not cling to the fronds. Hold a maidenhair under a running tap and the frond comes out dry, the droplets beading and rolling off a surface built to refuse them. That is the sort of small marvel ferns keep to themselves until
