Microsorium pteropus
Submersed — Photo: Alan Minnery
Java Fern
- Scientific Name
- Microsorium pteropus
- Origin
- Asia
- Temperature (°C)
- 20 - 28
- pH range
- 5.5 - 7.5
- Hardness (ppm)
- 30 - 200
- Light
- Low
- Height
- 150 - 300mm
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Notes
- This plant will climb over submerged wood or rock, weight or tie the roots to the host and it will soon cling on and spread, grows well in the shade, do not cover the rhizome because it will rot.
- Propagation
- By producing advantageous leaf buds on the sides of mature leaves, or by splitting the horizontal rhizome
- Source
- FNZAS