This fine specimen (Platycerium sp.) belonging to a club member began as single frond in a small hanging basket. It has never been transplanted and thirty years later has a leaf span over 6 feet and a rhizome over 3 feet in diameter. The small basket is still in there – somewhere.
a mighty Staghorn fern
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Set on and in 55 acres of an abandoned quarry it is restorative living art.
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