Description

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Soft Tree Fern
Latin name: Dicksonia Antarctica
Other names: Tasmanian Tree Fern, Hardy Tree Fern, Australian Tree Fern
Family: Dicksoniaceae
USDA zones: 8 – 11
(up to ?12 °C; 11 °F)
Type: FernHeight: in natural habitat even up to 15 m (49 feet); in cultivation up to 4,5 – 5m

Natural habitat: damp, sheltered woodland slopes and moist gullies

Foliage: Evergreen

Roots: extensive root system. It also produces surface root system, on “trunk”

Trunk: hairy at the base. It is formed from decaying remains of earlier growth of the plant

Longevity: These ferns attain even ages of over 300 years

Location/Light: Filtered sunlight

Soil: best to grow in organic, humus enriched compost. It strongly resents drought or dryness at the roots, but does best in free-draining & moist soil.

Watering: They need to be kept wet and given proper humidity. Once established they are drought resistant. Mist daily.

Propagation method: From spores. Trunk produces offsets.

Collection of spores: late August

Sowing: spring/late August

Germination: within 15-60 days.Evergreen, perennial rainforest fern.

Soft Tree Fern is native to some parts of south eastern Australia (south part of Queelnsland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania). Dicksonia Antarctica is the most abundant tree fern in South Eastern Australia.

Well suited for: it is grown as an ornamental tree in your garden. Perfectly suited to be grown in the garden or for landscaping purposes.

It can be grown as a bonsai!

Plant’s fibrous trunk can provide mmicrohabitat for epiphytes and also provides shelter for more delicate fern species to flourish underneath.

The old fronds can be tied loosely to the trunk to provide it extra humidity.

If we want our Dicksonia to thrive and produce good sized fronds (8 – 10 ft. long), it must be encouraged to develop a good basal root system. Therefore it needs moisture conditions and feed absorbed by the ‘trunk roots’ alone.

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