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Diplazium australe

Diplazium australe
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0

Diplazium australe, the Austral lady fern, is a small fern from eastern Australia, New Zealand and Norfolk Island that grows in moist, shaded rainforest. Keep it humid, shaded and consistently moist to grow it well.

Family
Athyriaceae (Athyri family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist but not waterlogged, and water more in dry spells.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, free-draining moist soil or a peat-based potting mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from frost and temperatures below about 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. & SE. Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk I.
Climate
subtropical

About

Diplazium australe, commonly known as the Austral lady fern, is a small fern occurring in eastern Australia, New Zealand and Norfolk Island. The habitat is moist shaded areas, often occurring in rainforest.

Other Diplazium plants

Deparia petersenii subsp. congrua · Diplazium assimile · 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 australe 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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