Besides shady forest areas, as at this station, ferns can also grow in crevices in rock faces, in acid environments such as bogs and swamps and as epiphytes — plants that ... tapering at both the tip ...

Platycerium bifercatum) is another popular epiphytic houseplant. Native to Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Australia, staghorn or elkhorn ferns grow in the tree canopy. The common names refer to the ...

Instead of growing in the ground, many Australian ferns attach themselves to trees (epiphytes) or rocks (lithophytes) and get their nutrients from decaying leaf matter and animal droppings that ...

Almost 40 species are included, mainly growing as epiphytes. The crocodile fern (Microsorum musifolium) gets its common name from its intricate vein pattern, reminiscent of crocodile skin.

Staghorn ferns (Platycerium species) are epiphytes, plants that hold on to ... antlerlike green fertile ones that give the plant its common name. In the wild, the sterile fronds hold the fern ...

Kangaroo paw fern is an epiphytic fern with distinctive foliage ... to their new pots and you can care for them as usual. Common houseplant pests like mealybugs and scale can affect kangaroo ...

Their spores are dispersed by wind and they sometimes land high in the tree canopy, where the young ferns find root-hold and grow as epiphytes. In fact, licorice fern has been documented in the ...

The epiphytic ferns and cacti may be also grown in pots ... Anole lizards, chameleons and geckos, add to the magic of our gardens. Many common birds feed on insects as well. To keep your ...

If your fern is well fertilised and you're okay with the colour change, you can leave it as it is. Otherwise move it to a more filtered position to reset the colour. TAMMY: An epiphyte grows on ...

It’s an epiphyte in its home in the tropical ... which give the plant one of its many other common names, bear’s paw fern, will clamber over the surface, but given time they will start to ...