Platycerium coronarium
A large tropical staghorn fern from lowland Southeast Asia. Its upright, lobed shield fronds form a crown-like basket around the tree trunk, and its narrow, forked fertile fronds hang down and can grow to several metres. It needs steady warmth, high humidity and bright filtered light, and is grown mounted, never in a pot of soil.
Where it grows wild
It grows as an epiphyte on tree trunks and branches in lowland and foothill rainforest, including limestone and ultramafic forest in the Philippines and remnant foothill forest in Sumatra. The upright shield fronds catch falling leaves and rain, which rot down into the humus the roots grow in.
Wild herbarium records with an altitude range from sea level to about 700 m. It is a lowland to foothill species.
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