Species · genus Microsorum · Polypodiaceae
Crocodile Fern
Microsorum musifolium (Blume) Copel.
Cultivars of M. musifolium
The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.
No named cultivars catalogued under M. musifolium yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.
Guide
The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.
A Southeast Asian and Pacific epiphytic fern that grows clinging to bark in warm, humid forest, drawing moisture from air and rain rather than standing water. Its roots want fast drainage and airflow and will rot if kept soggy, so let the top inch of a loose, bark-rich mix dry before watering again. Give it bright indirect light, never direct sun, and steady humidity.
Care recipe
The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.
Care notes are early — not yet verified
- Light
- ai:claude-opus-4-8
- Water
- ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-9d)
- Humidity
- ai:claude-opus-4-8
- Soil
- ai:claude-fable-5
- Care
- ai:claude-fable-5
Bright, indirect
≈ every 9 days
High
16–29 °C
Loose, bark-based epiphytic mix that stays airy
Division of the creeping rhizome
Dilute balanced feed monthly in the growing season
Moderate
Non-flowering fern, grown for its rippled banana-like fronds
Not yet documented
This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
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No reference gallery yet
A few clear photos — habit, a mature leaf, a flower if it blooms — would give this page its eyes.
Add imagesSources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-9d) · ai:claude-fable-5
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