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Alsophila ferruginea

Alsophila ferruginea
Photo: filibot.web, CC BY-SA 2.0

Alsophila ferruginea is a tree fern from the Philippines, growing to 2 to 4 metres tall in mossy montane forest up to about 1,200 metres. It is a wild forest species rarely cultivated, and it needs cool, humid, shaded conditions like a cloud forest.

Family
Cyatheaceae (Cyathe family)
Grows as
Tree, Fern
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil and root zone consistently moist but not waterlogged, and mist the fronds in dry air.
Soil
Rich, loose, well-draining mix high in organic matter, such as fibrous peat with leaf mould.
Temperature
15–25 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Philippines
Climate
wet tropical

About

Alsophila ferruginea, synonym Cyathea ferruginea, is a species of tree fern endemic to the Philippines. It is native to the islands of Negros, Palawan and Balabac. It grows in mossy forest up to an altitude of about 1,200 metres (3,900 ft).

Other Alsophila plants

Alsophila abbottii · Alsophila acanthophora · Alsophila acuminata · Alsophila alderwereltii · Alsophila alleniae · Alsophila alpina · Alsophila amboinensis · Alsophila aneitensis · Alsophila apiculata · Alsophila apoensis · Rough tree fern · Alsophila balanocarpa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alsophila ferruginea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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