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Gymnocarpium oyamense

Gymnocarpium oyamense is a small rhizomatous woodland fern from the oak-fern genus, native to moist forests and mossy rocks from Nepal through China and Japan to New Guinea. It is grown as an ornamental, mainly in shaded, cool, moist garden spots.

Family
Cystopteridaceae (Cystopterid family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist but never waterlogged.
Soil
Humus-rich, moist, well-drained woodland soil or leaf mould.
Temperature
10–20 °C; protect from heat above about 28 °C and hard frost below -15 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Nepal to C. & SC. Japan and New Guinea
Climate
temperate

About

Gymnocarpium oyamense is a species of fern in the oak-fern genus Gymnocarpium, family Aspleniaceae. It is found from Nepal to China and Japan and on to New Guinea. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental. It grows in moist areas in forests and moss covered rocks.

Other Gymnocarpium plants

Western oakfern · Oak Fern

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gymnocarpium oyamense 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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