Fern tree
കാട്ടുനെല്ലിफर्न ट्री
Filicium decipiens (Wight & Arn.) Thwaites
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 8.4 m
- wide
- —
Sapindaceae
Formerly Filicium elongatum, Jurighas decipiens, Pteridophyllum decipiens, Rhus decipiens
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
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Ethiopia to Mozambique, Comoros, Madagascar, SW. India, Sri LankaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade, one source
- Height
- 6.1 m to 11 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Finnish
- siipisanikkapuu
- Japanese
- シダノキ
- Indonesian
- Kerai Payung
- Chinese (China)
- 蕨叶树
- Chinese
- 蕨葉樹, 木羊齒, 樹蕨
- French
- Arbre fougère
- Spanish
- Árbol helecho
- Marathi
- फर्न ट्री
- Malayalam
- കാട്ടുനെല്ലി, ശനിമരം, വാൽമുറിച്ചി
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Filicium decipiens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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