Ferns, Mushrooms, Fungi and Mosses: Drynaria quercifolia, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
A few things to remember. They are epiphytes or lithophytes, in that they naturally grow on trees or rocks. So drainage needs to be very good.

Some varieties have fronds all year, some drop all their leaves during the off season. Those that go dormant should be kept a bit drier when not growing, especially if their environment is cold.

They don't need much in the way of fertiliser, in nature they get everything from the leaves that fall amongst their 'nest leaves' and break down to a humus.

The rhizomes are quite hard/inflexible. If they're growing in the wrong direction they can't be bent back again (without snapping off). If broken off the piece of rhizome can produce a new plant, if it's long enough and looked after.

Drynaria quercifolia growing in leaf litter on a rocky ledge with Hoya australis ssp rupicola.