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Dryopteris crassirhizoma
Also called Thick Stemmed Woodfern
Dryopteris crassirhizoma is a semi-evergreen, vase-shaped fern up to about 1 m tall and wide, grown for its finely divided fronds around a brown central crown. It is a shade-loving woodland fern that needs cool, moist, humus-rich soil.
Dryopteris crassirhizoma is a fern species in the wood fern family Dryopteridaceae.
This semi-evergreen fern grows to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall and broad, with narrowly divided fronds growing in a vase-like shape from a central crown, which is brown in colour.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dryopteris crassirhizoma 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.
