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href="/terrarium-plant-library/">Plant Library</a> › Little Tree Plant</nav><div class="p-top"> <div><div class="eyebrow">Plant Library</div><h1>Little Tree Plant</h1><div class="latin">Biophytum sensitivum</div><p style="color:var(--muted);font-size:.95rem">Family: Oxalidaceae</p></div> <div><div class="p-hero-img"><img alt="Little Tree Plant (Biophytum sensitivum)" height="224" onerror="this.closest('.p-hero-img').remove()" src="/wp-content/uploads/plants/little-tree-plant-biophytum.jpg" width="330"/></div><p class="credit">Photo via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophytum_sensitivum" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p></div> </div><div class="stats"><div class="st"><div class="st-k">Difficulty</div><div class="st-v">Moderate</div></div><div class="st"><div class="st-k">Light</div><div class="st-v">Bright, indirect</div></div><div class="st"><div class="st-k">Water</div><div class="st-v">Constantly moist</div></div><div class="st"><div class="st-k">Humidity</div><div class="st-v">High</div></div><div class="st"><div class="st-k">Size</div><div class="st-v">10–15 cm</div></div><div class="st"><div class="st-k">Closed terrarium</div><div class="st-v">Excellent</div></div></div><article> <p class="lead">The Little Tree Plant looks exactly like a miniature palm or tree fern, a slender trunk topped with a whorl of feathery leaflets, giving instant scale and a magical bonsai-forest feel to a terrarium.</p> <h2>Light</h2><p>Bright, indirect light. It's a understorey plant and dislikes direct sun.</p> <h2>Water & humidity</h2><p>Keep constantly moist and warm; it resents drying out.</p> <h2>In the terrarium</h2><p>A wonderful novelty for warm closed terrariums, where its need for high <a href="/terrarium-humidity-control-managing-moisture-levels-for-healthy-plants/">humidity</a> is easily met. Its tiny 'tree' form adds a sense of scale among mosses.</p> <div class="box" style="background:#fff;border:1px solid var(--rule);border-left:3px solid var(--sage);border-radius:4px;padding:1rem 1.3rem;margin:1.6rem 0"><strong style="color:var(--moss)">Tip:</strong> Its leaflets fold when touched (like a sensitive plant), a fun feature, but handle sparingly.</div> <h2 id="propagation">Propagation</h2><p>Biophytum is grown from seed and readily self-sows in a closed terrarium, its ripe capsules split and flick seed a surprising distance. Left undisturbed, it will often maintain its own small colony.</p><h2>Common problems</h2><ul><li>Collapsing or dropping leaflets = it dried out or got cold.</li><li>Leggy trunk = insufficient light.</li></ul> <section class="companions"><h2>Good companions</h2><p class="comp-note">Little Tree Plant pairs well with plants that want the same conditions, a humid, closed terrarium with bright, indirect light. 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