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Sitobolium wilfordii

Dennstaedtia wilfordii

Sitobolium wilfordii
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY-SA 4.0

Sitobolium wilfordii is a temperate fern in the Dennstaedtiaceae family, native from Pakistan through the Himalaya and China to Japan. It is a wild woodland species rarely grown in gardens, so care advice is general fern guidance.

Family
Dennstaedtiaceae (Dennstaedti family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid letting it dry out completely.
Soil
Humus-rich, well-drained woodland mix with plenty of leaf mould.
Temperature
10–24 °C; protect from hard frost below -10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Pakistan to W. Himalaya, S. Russian Far East to China and and Japan
Climate
temperate

About

Sitobolium wilfordii is a species of fern in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Coptodipteris as Coptidipteris wilfordii. It is native from Pakistan through China to Korea and Japan.

Fungus Herpobasidium filicinum (Eocronartiaceae family, Platygloeales order) is found on the fern in Japan.

Other Dennstaedtia plants

Lacy Ground Fern · Hayscented fern

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sitobolium wilfordii 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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