Nerve plant
Fittonia albivenis
Also called fittonia, mosaic plant.
Wants humidity a room cannot give it, which is why it sulks on a windowsill and thrives in a closed terrarium. Collapses when dry and usually recovers.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 15 cm
- Smallest sensible enclosure
- 20 L, at least 25 cm long
- Temperature
- 18 to 28 °C
- Humidity
- 60 to 95%
- 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 nerve plant fits the enclosure you have.