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Dicksonia sellowiana
Dicksonia sellowiana, known as xaxim or imperial samambaiaçu, is a tree fern that can grow over 10 metres tall, native to subtropical and tropical forests of South America. Its dense, fibrous trunk (caudex) is harvested illegally, which puts wild populations at risk, so grow it from nursery-raised plants rather than wild-collected ones.
Dicksonia sellowiana, the xaxim, or samambaiaçu or imperial samambaiaçu, is an arborescent fern in the family Dicksoniaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.
The fern is native to Southern Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Soft Tree-fern · Golden Tree Fern · Hard treefern · Tree fern
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dicksonia sellowiana 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.
