Boston fern
Nephrolepis exaltata
Also called nephrolepis, sword fern.
Indirect light and damp air. Dry air browns the tips faster than anything else will.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 70 cm
- Smallest sensible enclosure
- 40 L, at least 40 cm long
- Temperature
- 16 to 26 °C
- Humidity
- 60 to 90%
- Grown
- in a pot of its own
- How hard
- easy
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether a boston fern fits the enclosure you have.