Dragon Scale Fern

Dragon Scale Fern Care

Pyrrosia Piloselloides

What is the plant

Pyrrosia piloselloides is an epiphytic creeping fern with round, fleshy leaves. In the wild it’s known to completely blanket trees in overlapping leaves, giving them an armoured appearance like dragon scales. Quite unlike scales however, the contents of the soft, succulent leaves are often used medicinally in native cultures.The Dragon Scale Fern adapts very well to terrarium settings, and will do best wrapped around driftwood branches or mounted to a background. With its light green colours and soft shapes it adds a lovely texture to any terrarium environment.

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Humidity

Normal

Lighting

Part Sun

Difficulty

Medium

How to Care for the Plant

Water
The Dragon Scale Fern is an epiphytic species, but still prefers moist environments. It may need the occasional misting to keep it happy, but it’ll do well if attached to a consistently moist surface e.g. tree bark.
Sunlight
Pyrrosia piloselloides has forgiving lighting requirements, and will readily grow in both low-light settings and areas of varying indirect sunlight. In heavily shaded areas, you’ll see the normally round leaves elongate and reach towards light sources.
Soil
The Dragon Scale Fern grows best attached to hardscape, but it can likely still grow on a moist substrate if the rhizome is not buried deep and there’s plenty of aeration.

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Temperature
Native to Malaysia, Singapore and other South East Asia countries, Pyrrosia piloselloides thrives in warm and humid tropical forest environments.
Popularity
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