Staghorn fern
கலைமான் கொம்பு பெரணி
Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C.Chr.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 76 cm
- wide
- 76 cm
Polypodiaceae
Also called Elkhorn fern, Elk horn fern
Formerly Acrostichum bifurcatum, Alcicornium bifurcatum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- EpiphyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Jawa to New CaledoniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS, NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources. Sources differ: RHS part; NC State Extension part; UF/IFAS part, shade
- Height
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; NC State Extension 2–3 ft
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; NC State Extension 2–3 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from RHS, NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayThe middle of 3 sources, which all differ. Sources differ: RHS 10 °C; NC State Extension -6.7 °C; UF/IFAS -1.1 °C
Not known yet: climate, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Helecho asta de ciervo, Cuerno, Helecho Cuerno de Alce
- Chinese
- 二歧鹿角蕨, 鹿角蕨, 二叉鹿角蕨
- Czech
- parožnatka vidličnatá
- Portuguese
- Samambaia-Chifre-de-Veado
- Russian
- Платицериум оленерогий, Платицериум дваждывильчатый
- Polish
- płaskla łosioroga
- Thai
- ชายผ้าสีดาไบเฟอร์คาตั้ม
- Danish
- almindelig hjortetakbregne
- Chinese (China)
- 二歧鹿角蕨
- Slovak
- parohovec vidlicovitý
- French
- Fougère Corne de Cerf
- Simplified Chinese
- 二歧鹿角蕨
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Platycerium bifurcatum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.