| 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; sterile fronds broad, forked, rounded, 30-90cm long x 15-30cm wide, leathery, with a characteristic split reminiscent of the forked antlers of a stag, fertile fronds narrower and more elongated and lobed, 20-40cm long x 3-5cm wide, arise from the center of the rosette, producing spores on their undersides. | |