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Diplazium assimile

Diplazium assimile
Photo: Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Diplazium assimile is a tufted fern from eastern Australia, New Guinea and Norfolk Island that grows in damp rainforest and tall eucalypt forest. It needs consistently moist conditions and shade to thrive.

Family
Athyriaceae (Athyri family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil and root zone consistently moist and never let it dry out.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, well-draining but moisture-retentive mix.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New Guinea, SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales, Norfolk I.
Climate
wet tropical

About

Diplazium assimile, the upside-down fern is a tufted fern occurring in eastern Australia. It occurs in damp places in rainforest or tall eucalypt forest.

Other Diplazium plants

Deparia petersenii subsp. congrua · Diplazium australe · Diplazium dietrichianum · Widened Twin Sorus Fern · Vegetable fern · Diplazium fraxinifolium · Peacock fern · Governor Laffan's Fern · Diplazium melanochlamys · Molokai twinsorus fern · Diplazium queenslandicum · Mountain Twinsorus Fern

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diplazium assimile 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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