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Culcita macrocarpa
Also called Tree Fern
Woolly tree fern (Culcita macrocarpa) is a large, shade-loving tree fern from Macaronesia and northern Iberia, reaching about 2 m tall with leathery green fronds. It needs shade, steady warmth and high humidity, so keep it moist and out of direct sun.
Culcita macrocarpa, the woolly tree fern, is a species of fern in the family Culcitaceae native to Macaronesia and parts of the Iberian Peninsula, where it might have been introduced. It is the only member of the order Cyatheales that is native to Europe.
Culcita macrocarpa is endemic to Portugal and Spain, both on the Iberian Peninsula and Macaronesia. It can be found in all of the Azores islands except Graciosa, in the Island of Madeira part of the Madeira Archipelago and in Tenerife on the Canary Islands. It is very rare in Santa Maria. In the Iberian Peninsula it is found in the north Cantabrian and Asturian coasts, northern Galicia and in mountainous areas around Porto and the Province of Cádiz. The populations found in Iberia might be the result of an introduction.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Culcita macrocarpa 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.
