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Dryopteris nigropaleacea is a perennial wood fern from the Himalayan region, native to northern Pakistan through to central Nepal. It is a cool-climate woodland fern grown mainly by specialist collectors, and it prefers shade and moist, humus-rich soil.
Dryopteris nigropaleacea is a species of perennial leptosporangiate fern endemic to parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, western Nepal, and Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh in India.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dryopteris nigropaleacea 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.
