Acrobolbaceae
Plagiochila porelloides
Plagiochila porelloides
Indoor Plants · Liverwort · Plagiochila · Bryophyte · Terrarium · Shade Plant · Humidity · Vivarium · Moss Garden · Leafy Liverwort · Cool Climate
Plagiochila porelloides is a robust leafy liverwort that forms attractive, overlapping green fronds in cool, moist, and shaded environments. It is well suited to terrariums, moss walls, and vivaria where high humidity can be maintained consistently. Avoid direct sunlight and warm, dry conditions, as this bryophyte requires stable moisture and cool temperatures to thrive.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 3 hours
- Watering
- Mist regularly or maintain consistently moist substrate; never allow to fully dry out · Every 5-7 days
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 4 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
Sources: trefle
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