Get Your Hands on the Stunning Compact Lace Fern - Nephrolepis exaltata whitmanii compacta
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- Common name:
- Compact Lace Fern
- Category:
- Ferns, Groundcovers, Indoor Plants
- Family:
- Polypodiaceae or Fern family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate more
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Non Flowering
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- Less than 50 cms
- Plant Spread or Width:
- Less than 50 cms
- Plant Form:
- Spreading
- Special Character:
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- Good for Edges ie very small hedge or border
- Hanging or weeping growth habit
- NASA plant for Indoor pollution control
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Less than a hundred
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Plant Description:
- - Very similar to the whitmanii but a mouch more compact form.
- Leaves do not get to more than 20 to 25 cms long.
- This fern is very similar to Smithii - but the leaves are stiffer and darker green.
- They are also not as cut as the Smithii.
- Excellent for use as a ground cover or as a small edge plant in semi shade locales.
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Growing tips:
- - One problem is that it has a tendency to revert back to a lesser divided form. Such forms should be immediately removed.
- General, prefers moderate humidity.
- Semi shade and porous compost.
- Regular water growing periad from march to september.
- Indoor plant that can be grow outdoors in warm areas.
- They require good, indirect light indoors & monthly feeding.
- Hardy & easy to cultivate, it enjoy a moist soil of slight acidity.
- P.H - 5 - 6.5.