Man fern
Dicksonia antarctica Labill.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 7.0 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Cyatheaceae
Also called Soft tree-fern, Australian tree-fern, Tasmanian tree-fern, Soft Tree Fern, Bristly Tree Fern
Formerly Balantium antarcticum, Cibotium billardierei, Dicksonia billardierei
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Queensland to SE. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 7.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 5–5 m; Plants for a Future 9–9 m
- Spread
- 4.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Portuguese
- Feto-arbóreo-da-Tasmânia
- Māori
- Katute
- Russian
- Диксония антарктическая
- Chinese (China)
- 塔斯马尼亚蚌壳蕨
- Danish
- ulden træbregne
- Polish
- dwuwijka antarktyczna
- Chinese
- 塔斯馬尼亞蚌殼蕨, 软树蕨
- Slovak
- diksónia antarktická
- Afrikaans
- Tasmaniese boomvaring
- French
- Fougère arborescente de Tasmanie
- Welsh
- coedredynen Awstralia
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Dicksonia antarctica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.