February 28th, 2023 at 1:28PM

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The Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern 🌿

Sphaeropteris lepifera, synonym Cyathea lepifera, the brush pot tree, is a tree fern that grows in the mountains of East and Southeast Asia, which can grow up to 20 feet tall. The plant has existed for over 300 million years and is considered a living fossil. Wikipedia

Class: Polypodiopsida

Kingdom: Plantae

The tree ferns are the ferns that grow with a trunk elevating the fronds above ground level. Most tree ferns are members of the “core tree ferns”,

belonging to the families Dicksoniaceae, Metaxyaceae, and Cibotiaceae in the order Cyatheales.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaeropteris_lepifera

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