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Platycerium ridleyi

Ridleys Staghorn Fern (Platycerium ridleyi)

Platycerium ridleyi
Ridleys Staghorn Fern
They are strange looking plants with two types of fronds--sterile and fertile. The sterile frond or base frond, protects of the roots and rhizome of the plant. It is appressed to the fern. The fertile frond usually is pendent, but in the case of P. ridleyi, it is upright.
South America
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Gray-Green
Downy
Fern

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