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Cyathea caracasana is a tree fern with very large fronds on a slender trunk up to about 6 m tall. It grows best in humid, cloud forest conditions, in a sunnier spot than most tree ferns prefer.
Cyathea caracasana is a tree fern (common names: Boba, Sarro helecho, Helecho macho) in the family Cyatheaceae. It is native to Colombia, West Indies, Central America, and northern Peru eastward to the Guianas. The fronds are uncommonly large, with prickley petioles (stipes) up to 314 cm (124 in) in length and leaf blades (laminae) up to 282 cm (111 in) in length. The single longest frond measured in a study by Arens and Baracaldo was 542 cm (213 in) in total length. The trunk is fairly slender, and up to 6 m (20 ft) tall. It is a cloud forest species which prefers sunnier locations within that biome.
Scaly Tree Ferns · Cyathea albomarginata · West Indian treefern · Cyathea aristata · Cyathea biliranensis · Cyathea corcovadensis · Cyathea croftii · Cyathea delgadii · Cyathea dichromatolepis · Cyathea feeana · Cyathea glaziovii · Cyathea grandifolia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyathea caracasana 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.
