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Plant Use Details 

 
Microsorum scandens. Mokimoki. Fragrant fern.
FAMILY: Polypodiaceae
BOTANICAL NAME: Microsorum scandens
PREVIOUS NAMES: Polypodium pustulatum (Best Colenso); Phymatodes scandens; Polypodium scandens; Phymatosorus scandens
 MĀORI NAME: MOKIMOKI, moki
 COMMON NAME: fragrant fern
 SCENT: Used for scent (Best 1942). In recipe for scent. See Aciphylla.
Strong smelling fern used for perfuming and for scenting oil (Colenso 1869a). '...an agreeable delicate scent' (Colenso 1892b)
Fronds fragrant when freshly dried (Dobbie and Crookes 1952).
LINK WORDS: fern
 RECORD NUMBER: 1176