Nephrolepis cocosensis

Nephrolepis cocosensis A.Rojas is a sword fern described by the Costa Rican pteridologist Alexander Rojas-Alvarado, apparently from Isla del Coco (Cocos Island) as the epithet indicates. GBIF holds no usable wild records and no climate could be measured, so everything below is inferred from the island's very wet tropical climate and from the genus. Treat it as a warm, humid, bright-shade fern.

At home, aim for

Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

No habitat data are attached to the name. Cocos Island is covered in very wet lowland to cloud forest, where Nephrolepis grows on trunks, rocks and banks in broken shade.

Unknown; Cocos Island rises from sea level to about 575 m, so the plant is likely lowland to submontane.

Cocos Island (Costa Rica)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.