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Culcita

Culcita
Photo: Ashley Basil from uk, CC BY 2.0

Culcita is a genus of tree-fern-like ferns from the Americas, Macaronesia and Iberia, with the best known member being the Costa Rican or Mexican tree fern-like plant Culcita macrocarpa. These ferns are grown for their sturdy, fuzzy trunks and fronds, and they need humid, shaded conditions to thrive.

Family
Culcitaceae (Culcit family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil and root zone consistently moist but not waterlogged, and mist or water the crown in dry air.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, humus-rich mix with good organic content.
Temperature
15–25 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate

About

Culcita is a genus of ferns, native to the Americas, Macaronesia and Iberian Peninsula. It is the only genus in the family Culcitaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Culcitoideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae, the placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Culcita (plant) 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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