Cryptopapillaria penicillata

(Dozy & Molk.) M.Menzel Species

Cryptopapillaria penicillata
The New York Botanical Garden — CC BY 4.0
Cryptopapillaria penicillata photograph 1 Cryptopapillaria penicillata photograph 2 Cryptopapillaria penicillata photograph 3 Cryptopapillaria penicillata photograph 4 Cryptopapillaria penicillata photograph 5 Cryptopapillaria penicillata photograph 6
Botanical name
Cryptopapillaria penicillata
Family
Meteoriaceae
Genus
Cryptopapillaria
Reference
World Flora Online

How to grow Cryptopapillaria penicillata

We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.

GardenDecoded's botanical data covers every accepted species, but growing advice is written by hand rather than imported — so it exists only for the plants we have worked through so far. The botanical detail above is complete and sourced.

Other names for this plant

These names have all been used for Cryptopapillaria penicillata but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.

Meteorium penicillatum Papillaria penicillata Papillaria subsquamatula

Others in Cryptopapillaria

Cryptopapillaria fuscescens
Cryptopapillaria feae
Cryptopapillaria helictophylla
Cryptopapillaria chrysoclada

GardenDecoded is an educational gardening reference. Botanical data comes from World Flora Online and GBIF; growing guidance is our own. Always check a plant's toxicity and local invasiveness status before planting, and never eat or apply a plant based on this site alone.