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Cyathea arborea
West Indian treefern is a tall tree-like fern from wet Caribbean and northern South American forests, with a thornless trunk and a crown of large fan-shaped fronds. It needs humid, shaded, moist conditions and is grown mainly in warm, frost-free gardens.
Cyathea arborea (vernacular English: West Indian treefern, vernacular Spanish: helecho gigante or palo camarón) is a plant of the family Cyatheaceae in the order Cyatheales.
This species of tree fern is native to the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles from the Virgin Islands to Tobago.
Scaly Tree Ferns · Cyathea albomarginata · Cyathea aristata · Cyathea biliranensis · Cyathea caracasana · Cyathea corcovadensis · Cyathea croftii · Cyathea delgadii · Cyathea dichromatolepis · Cyathea feeana · Cyathea glaziovii · Cyathea grandifolia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyathea arborea 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.
