Graceful, deep green fronds which develop tiny bulbils or "Chickens". Excellent pot plant indoors or in shade. However some plants sold as this species are in fact a non-native sterile hybrid A.x lucrosum (A. bulbiferum x A. dimorphum).
Although best in shade it is an incredibly tough fern for those hot dry sunny places that very few ferns can survive in. It loves rich guano or compost and makes a great pot plant. Coastal rock dweller it forms a dense clump of hundreds of fronds.
On coastal rocks or amongst petrel scrub especially in places exposed to salt spray.
A handsome, glossy foliage plant suitable in a container or in a rock garden.