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Staghorn giant in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Platycerium superbum 'grande'

 

Staghorn 'giant'

Platycerium superbum naturally occurs in and near rainforests. Growing to 2m tall 1m wide, it has heart-shaped sterile fronds and arching grey-green fertile fronds which are forked. 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.

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plant Features
  • Staghorn giant likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Staghorn giant likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Staghorn giant is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Staghorn giant likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Staghorn 'giant'

Latin name

Platycerium superbum 'grande'

type

Epiphyte

family

Polypodiaceae

ph

5.0 - 6.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Staghorn giant likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Frost

    Staghorn giant is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Staghorn giant likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

  • Water

    Staghorn giant likes very little water

    Very little water

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Staghorn giant is 1.00meters x 2.00meters 1.00 M 2.00 M

Platycerium superbum 'grande'

Platycerium superbum naturally occurs in and near rainforests. Growing to 2m tall 1m wide, it has heart-shaped sterile fronds and arching grey-green fertile fronds which are forked. 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 can be propagated by spores produced on the underside of the fertile fronds

 

Planting

From Early Spring TO Late Winter

Platycerium superbum can be sourced in 14cm pots and also mounted on cork bark.

 
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