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Mexican fern

Anemia mexicana

Also called Mexican Flowering Fern

Mexican fern
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Valérie75 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0

Anemia mexicana, the Mexican flowering fern, is a fern native to parts of Mexico and Texas, with upright fertile fronds that look like flowers. It is a fern rather than a flowering plant, and it needs bright light with good drainage and modest moisture.

Family
Anemiaceae (Anemi family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Let the top of the soil dry lightly between waterings and avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Free-draining mix with some grit or sand, such as a cactus or fern mix with added perlite.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WC. Texas to Belize
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Anemia mexicana, the Mexican flowering fern, is a fern species in the genus Anemia, sometimes called flowering ferns. It is native to much of Mexico and the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos regions of Texas. The "flowers" are upright fertile fronds that can be mistaken for true flowers.

Other Anemia plants

Anemia rotundifolia · Anemia tabascana · Anemia fern

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anemia mexicana 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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