Staghorn Fern 4" Hanging Basket - EXOTIC - Platycerium

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Product Features

• Platycerium biforcatum - (Common Staghorn Fern)
• The staghorn fern is an epiphyte that lives in the tropical forests of southeast Asia and Australia
• Ideal temperatures are between 60 degrees and 80 degrees
• It prefers bright, but indirect light
• The plant you will receive is growing in a 4" Hanging Basket

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000VI25H2
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,019 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)

Product Description

Platycerium biforcatum - (Common Staghorn Fern). The staghorn fern is an epiphyte that lives in the tropical forests of southeast Asia and Australia. This plant has a short rhizome from which both sterile and fertile fronds sprout. The sterile fronds are rounded and form a sort of involucre which encases the branch on which the plant is attached. From these sprout the fronds which carry the reproductive apparatus, recognizable by a sort of rusty down situated in the ventral part of the plant. The fronds are long, wide, and laciniated at the top.

Staghorn Fern is one of the more unusual house plants. It grows without its roots in soil and produces 2 types of fronds. One type is the branched frond that gives the plant its name. The other round, flat frond forms a collar around the branched fronds. The round frond may be 3 to 4 inches across on young plants but 3 to 4 feet across on older plants. Ideal temperatures are between 60 degrees and 80 degrees. It prefers bright, but indirect light.

The plant you will receive is growing in a 4" Hanging Basket.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They came exactly like photographed, August 4, 2009

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Rhonda Malone - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Staghorn Fern 4" Hanging Basket - EXOTIC - Platycerium

I got my ferns in perfect shape and mounted better than I thought they would be. It has been a year about and they still are beautiful and growing.
thanks so much for my ferns.

Rhonda Malone

2.0 out of 5 stars quick death, January 20, 2012

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DS - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Staghorn Fern 4" Hanging Basket - EXOTIC - Platycerium

Plant began losing leaf after leaf within a week of arrival. Although ferns normally thrive here, this one has not.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Healthy plant, but not mounted on bark, February 10, 2011

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Ken - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Staghorn Fern 4" Hanging Basket - EXOTIC - Platycerium

Mine arrived very healthy but not mounted on bark; it was in a 4" brown plastic hanging pot. Ugh. So unattractive. If I had known it was in a plastic pot I wouldn't have ordered it.