Platycerium bifucatum
Elkhorn Fern
Growing to 90 cm tall by 80 cm broad, it has heart-shaped sterile fronds and arching grey-green fertile fronds which are forked and strap-shaped. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens. These ferns develop a humus-collecting "nest" of non-fertile fronds. Both fertile and non-fertile fronds are broad and branching and grown to resemble the horns of a stag or elk, thus the common names stag horn or elk horn.
Contributed by @juppke
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Partial shade
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Very little water
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Not Frost hardy
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Light and free draining
Common name
Elkhorn Fern
Latin name
Platycerium bifucatum
type
Epiphyte
family
Polypodiaceae
ph
5.0 - 6.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Partial shade
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Light and free draining
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Water
Very little water
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
full grown dimensions
0.80 M
1.50 M
Platycerium bifucatum
Growing to 90 cm tall by 80 cm broad, it has heart-shaped sterile fronds and arching grey-green fertile fronds which are forked and strap-shaped. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens. These ferns develop a humus-collecting "nest" of non-fertile fronds. Both fertile and non-fertile fronds are broad and branching and grown to resemble the horns of a stag or elk, thus the common names stag horn or elk horn.
Propogation by seed
From Late Summer TO Late Summer
Staghorns and elk horns can be propagated by spores produced on the underside of the fertile fronds
Planting
From Early Spring TO Late Winter
Platycerium bifurcatum can be sourced in 14cm pots and also mounted on cork bark.
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