Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern

Cyathea lepiferu

Japan's biggest fern

  • Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Flower name
    Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern
  • Scientific name
    Cyathea lepiferu
  • AliasFlying Spider-monkey Tree Fern, モリヘゴ, 森ヘゴ, アヤヘゴ, 日陰ヘゴ
  • Place of originPhilippines, Taiwan, China or Japan
  • Place of floweringGreenhouse, Botanical Gardens, Subtropical region
  • Flowering seasonMay, June, July, August, September

What is Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern

Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern , scientific name: Cyathea lepiferu, is native to Japan, China, Taiwan or Philippines, and is a large evergreen tree fern of the family Cyatheaceaes. Distributed in the Amami Oshima Island South, is a fern plants in Japan produced. Unique design looks, and left countless oval reverse figure-eight shaped leaves mark on the stem surface. Leaves are twice pinnately compound leaves and are dissected. The young shoots are edible.

Common name: Flying Spider-monkey Tree Fern, scientific name: Cyathea lepiferu, also known as: Hikage hego , origin: Philippines, Taiwan, China, Japan of Yaeyama Islands and Yakushima Island, Tree height: 5-15 m, leaf length: 3-4 m, leaf shape: twice pinnately compound leaves, flowering stage: May to September, petals: nothig (spore exist), Fruit: nothing.


  • Order
    Cyatheales
  • Family
    Cyatheaceae
  • Genus
    Cyathea
  • Species
    C. lepiferu
  • Type of flower
    Other
  • Array of flower
    Other
  • Petal shape
    without
  • Leaf type
    2 times pinnate compound leaf
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typeLarge evergreen tree fern
  • Flower colors
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit color
  • Height500.0 ~ 1500.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower0.0 ~ 0.0 cm

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