What is Platycerium?
plants belonging to the family Platycerium in the Polypodiaaceae family are ferns that people most often call phenomenon corner ferns or elkhorn ferns. Usually, these ferns have wide, uniquely branched leaves that resemble deer, elk or elk. The shape, length and color of the lobe depend on the species and cultivar. Ferns never have flowers; People therefore increase them strictly for their leaves. Some of the places that fist are East Australia, Philippines and Malaysia and Africa. Gardeners increase ferns as internal plants in a mild and colder climate. Growers are usually promoted by sowing of disputes and planting of plants that could grow on root tips. More information about the separation and rooting of plant plants is usually available in books and gardening websites.
Staghorn Ferns are epiphytes or air plants that have two types of leaves called leaves. At the base of each plant are the closing of the leaves and the otherThe leaves are erected, sometimes domes out. Leaf closing is sterile and often elongated in shape; They are usually dry and brown with age. Built leaves are fertile leaves that can produce disputes on the underside. Growers usually collect plants due to distinctive shapes of fertile leaves.
One of the most modern plants Platycerium is p. Bifurcatum , called Common Staghorn, Antelope Ears or Elk's Horn Fern. The base has leaves in the shape of shields or kidneys that overlap during growth. In the wild, these basal leaves help to promote the plant on the trunk of the tree and capture the residues for the plant to process food. Small plants called puppies hatch between these bases or basal leaves. Basal leaves are generated from 5 to 18 inches (about 13 to 46 cm) long, although several types of Platycerium have larger.
more visible fertile leaves runStaghorn's brackets are in the shape of antlers and can reach a length of 36 inches (about 91 cm) long. The leaves are erected only after the semi -public and branched two or three times and create a finger lobes. Gray-green leaves often have hair-like hair, usually called scurf. This can give the leaves a silver look and appear on all salaycerium Fern Fronds.
p. Alcicorne is another popular salaycerium Fern. Sometimes kindergarten and gardeners refer to this ferns as p. Bifurcatum ; Therefore, the buyer must explore which he or she actually gets. Cabbage or elephant of ear fern - p. Elephantotis - is the only kind of genus that has fertile leaves that are not lobed. Network of elevated veins, similar to the external leaf of cabbage, the large pattern of round leaves that can grow between 18 and 36 inches (about 46 to 91 cm) in diameter.