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Cyathea dichromatolepis

Cyathea dichromatolepis is a tree fern from the Cyatheaceae family, native to southeast Brazil. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions with moist soil, so it is mainly grown in greenhouses or sheltered tropical gardens.

Family
Cyatheaceae (Cyathe family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the root zone consistently moist, never waterlogged, and water more in warm weather.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, free-draining mix with plenty of organic matter.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SE. Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

About

Cyathea dichromatolepis is a species of fern in the family Cyatheaceae, native to Southeast Brazil. It was first described by Fée in 1869 as Alsophila dichromatolepis.

Other Cyathea plants

Scaly Tree Ferns · Cyathea albomarginata · West Indian treefern · Cyathea aristata · Cyathea biliranensis · Cyathea caracasana · Cyathea corcovadensis · Cyathea croftii · Cyathea delgadii · Cyathea feeana · Cyathea glaziovii · Cyathea grandifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyathea dichromatolepis 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.

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