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Cyathea albomarginata (a synonym of Cyathea holdridgeana) is a small tree fern with a trunk up to about 50 cm tall, native to high-elevation wet forests in Panama and Costa Rica. It is a cool-climate fern that needs humid, shaded conditions and does best well above the heat of the tropical lowlands.
Cyathea holdridgeana, synonym Cyathea albomarginata, is a species of tree fern native to Panama and Costa Rica. It grows in wet forests at elevations of 2400–2800 m, considerably higher than most other tree ferns of Central America.
Cyathea holdridgeana is a small tree with a trunk up to 50 cm tall. Petiole purplish-brown with white margins, scaly but not spiny; scales (= modified appendages attached to the margins of the petioles) bicolored, dark purple in the center but white along the margins; dead scales appearing totally white. Leaves bipinnate; pinnulae 10–12 cm long
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