Dicksonia youngiae forms one or more strange looking dark brown trunks that are 2-5 m tall and 15-20 cm thick.The upper trunk looks more reddish-brown because of reddish brown hairs. This specie produces offshoots and spreads underground what may result in a colony, on above picture you see a small plant of D.youngiae what already produces a new plant at its left. Distribution is in Queensland and Northern New South Wales, Australia from near sea level to 1200 m in rain forest. Plants are fast growing for a tree fern and doing well in moist humus soils, it is also hardy in many sheltered situations but does not endure heavy frost very well.

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