platycerium

It occurred to me to look up Platycerium in some good resource book, but I had to go to the movies or something.

Platycerium bifurcatum is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens.

Platycerium gametophytes are a small heart shaped thallus.

Colonial Platycerium can also be vegetatively propagated by carefully dividing large healthy ones into smaller, separate plants.

But it can also be seen growing in "baskets" formed by other epiphyteic ferns such as those in the Platycerium and Asplenium genera.

Platycerium superbum is a bracket epiphyte naturally occurring in and near rainforests but is now also widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens.

In some Platycerium species the top margin of these fronds forms an open crown of lobes and thereby catches falling forest litter and water.

Platycerium sporophytes (adult plants) have tufted roots growing from a short rhizome that bears two types of fronds, basal and fertile fronds.

The species Platycerium bifurcatum and Platycerium superbum are commonly cultivated as ornamental plants.

Several Platycerium are strongly adapted to xeric conditions and the drought tolerating mechanism Crassulacean Acid Metabolism has been reported for P. veitchii.

The Bird's Nest Fern (Asplenium nidus) is also popular, as is the staghorn ferns (genus Platycerium).

Large numbers of epiphytes and lianes form an important element at the lower levels including Platycerium, Nephrolepis biserrata, Drymaria and Asplenium africanum.

Platycerium superbum, commonly known as the Stag Horn Fern, is a Platycerium species of fern.

The staghorn, one of 18 species in the Platycerium genus, hails from Australia, and it's hardy enough to withstand the willy-nilly treatment of just about any recovering house-plant killer.

Kreier H. & Schneider H. 2006 Phylogeny and biogeography of the staghorn fern genus Platycerium (Polypodiaceae, Polypodiidae) Am.

Platycerium alcicorne, the Staghorn fern, is a species of Platycerium fern native to Madagascar, the Seychelles and Comoros Islands, as well as Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Platycerium bifurcatum (elkhorn fern or staghorn fern) is a species of fern native to Java, New Guinea and southeastern Australia, in New South Wales, Queensland and on Lord Howe Island.

The collections include: amorphophallus, balsa, bamboo, baobab, bromeliads, cycads, Everglades palms, heliconias, leather ferns, Lignum vitae, Paradise trees, platycerium, Pond Apple, Silk Floss trees, a Triangle fig tree, Vireyas, and water lilies.

Not exclusively confined to orchids, there are many neotropical detrivorous species which have developed the ability to collect and digest leaf litter, such as Platycerium and Nepenthes ampullaria, with ferns and bromeliads observed as being more efficient decomposers than orchids or other epiphytic species.