Description The Staghorn Fern clothes its roots in an ever changing skirt of Basal Fronds. The Staghorn is Epiphitic - meaning that it grows in leaf litter caught up in the crotch of a tree. It uses these fronds to hold in moisture and hold together its home. It must survive for extended dry season drought on just the moisture stored in the sticks, twigs and rotting leaves snagged up in the branches of a tropical tree. These sumptuous fronds extend quickly in bright green to capture and enrobe. A whole new frond may extend over the surface in just a few days. After a time, the frond will go yellow and then gradually turn to the color of cigar leaf veining in dark chocolate. The frond will remain for a season, then be covered over by a new green leaf The old frond becomes part of the decaying-vegetation water-reserve the plant carefully manages for its own survival.
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