Scientific Name: Platycerium bifurcatum
Common Name: staghorn fern
Family Name: Polypodiaceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand, S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Epiphytic, Pendulous, Upright
Form: Irregular
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Basal, Leathery, Succulent, Pubescent, Branching hairs, Spatulate, Other, Palmately lobed
Flowers:
Fruit: Sporangium (spores), Brown
Key ID Features:
An evergreen epiphytic fern; fertile fronds leathery and resemble the forked antlers of a stag.