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Dictymia

Dictymia
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 3.0

Dictymia is a small genus of epiphytic or rock-growing ferns from Malesia, Australia and Pacific islands, grown mainly as a specialist or collector's plant. Give it bright, humid conditions with a mounted or loose-bark setup, as it naturally grows on rocks or hanging from branches.

Family
Polypodiaceae (Polypody fern family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the medium or mount starts to dry, and keep the roots moist but never soggy.
Soil
Loose, well-draining epiphyte mix such as chunky bark with some sphagnum, or mounted on cork or wood.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate

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Dictymia is a small genus of ferns. They are found growing on rocks, or hanging from branches in Malesia, Australia and islands of the Pacific Ocean.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dictymia 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.

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