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Plenasium

Plenasium
Photo: Tequila 12:33, 15 July 2007 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0

Plenasium is a genus of ferns in the royal fern family (Osmundaceae), recognized as separate in the 2016 PPG I classification but sometimes kept within Osmunda. Care depends on the species, but these ferns generally need moist, shaded, acidic conditions.

Family
Osmundaceae (Osmund family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist and never let it dry out.
Soil
Moist, acidic, humus-rich mix with good organic matter.
Temperature
Mild to cool conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate

About

Plenasium is a genus of ferns in the family Osmundaceae. It is recognized in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but kept within a more broadly circumscribed genus Osmunda by other sources. The genus is known from Early Cretaceous to present.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Plenasium 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.

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