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Lygodium heterodoxum is a climbing fern from tropical Mexico and Central America that twines up supports using its leaf rachis. It is grown mainly for its climbing habit in warm, humid conditions.
Lygodium heterodoxum, with no widely used common name other than climbing fern, which is applicable to all species of the genus Lygodium, is a fern native to tropical parts the Americas.
Lygodium heterodoxum occurs in southern Mexico's states of Veracruz, Puebla, Tabasco, Oaxaca and Chiapas. In Central America it occurs throughout, except in El Salvador.
Japanese Climbing Fern · Monarch Climbing Fern · Climbing fern
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lygodium heterodoxum 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.
