platycerium!

hi everyone!

anyone owning platycerium out there?

well, i do! i have a few species, namely a few pots of platycerium bifurcatum and many other unidentified local species. theyre excellent to grow side by side with CPs, especially nepenthes.

cmon ppl, post pics.

[wijaya]

A few of my platy's:






my favorite one:




Ed

[rsivertsen]

Wow! I would be very interested in any species, except P. bifurcatum, as small plants or even fresh spore; I have Aldrovanda and several Drosera from NJ available for trade. - Rich

wow wijaya! your platycerium are awesome!

rsivertsen, its great to know that you have platycerium too. post pics! haha


right now i have mostly bifurcatum and a few other unidentified local species. dont have much nice pics now but will take soon.

btw, im looking for this species of fern called tanduk kijang in malay.. the leaves look very similar, but this one, the leaves grow upwards instead of downwards!

ive seen some locals selling it at rm200++ for a small specimen. its too much for me!

haha

apparently orang asli/people that live deep in jungles have to climb reallllllly high up tropical trees to get them.. whereas for local platycerium species, its easier..

[plantlover]

What does bifurcatum look like?

[wijaya]

@Rich: no spores at the moment and very hard to find a small one, I will see in the local nursery, but no promise though, I will let you know. But will the platy survived the long trip to Jersey? Will at least take 2 weeks time by regular mail.

@malowie: thanks, do you mean this 'tanduk kijang'? some species will spread from Sumatra to Peninsular Malaysia. This one do grow upward, no latest picture, this one was taken last February and the picture is a bit blure.



I will update on this one when I took some new picture of it.
Ed

http://syedazahar.blogspot.com/2007/...uk-kijang.html

check out the site

the last pic if tanduk kijang.. hehe

[wijaya]

@malowie: this just taken the new picture this morning, and for lol I just realized that since I got this one platy I put it upside down , I just realized this morning, the new grown leaf all facing upward again (greatness of nature in adapting) ha..ha...





This is the upward growing platy, the link you posted, I believe that is P. ridleyii.

Ed

haha.. icic..

well, your p. ridleyi looks good!

the picture i was referring to was this one to be specific... its a bit more bushy than ridleyi.

http://bp3.blogger.com/_ekjnTnZCXb4/...h/FXCD0015.JPG

the largest one with fronds growing upwards