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Ceradenia jungermannioides

Ceradenia jungermannioides, the mossy finger fern, is a small epiphytic fern from tropical America and the Azores, grown mainly by fern enthusiasts. It needs humid, shaded conditions and a loose, airy mounting medium rather than ordinary potting soil.

Family
Polypodiaceae (Polypody fern family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Bright indirect, Shade
Water
Keep the roots and medium evenly moist and never soggy, misting or watering often enough to hold humidity.
Soil
Loose epiphyte mix such as chunky bark, sphagnum or mounted on cork or wood.
Temperature
18–29 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard

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Ceradenia jungermannioides, the mossy finger fern, is a species of fern in the family Polypodiaceae indigenous to the Neotropical realm (in the Caribbean and the Amazon rainforest) and the Azores.

Other Ceradenia plants

Ceradenia melanopus · Ceradenia semiadnata · Ceradenia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ceradenia jungermannioides 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.

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