ID 2 staghorns

[kltower]

Here are the two staghorns I mentioned in another thread. Can you help to id them.

Can this be P. ellisii and



P. X elemaria?



Choong

[atmccmn]

Hi Choong, You've got some interesting hybrids there. Your first plant probably have got alcicorne parentage in it. Mostly an alcicorne hybrid. Perhaps hybridise with bifurcatum. As can be seen, the fertile frond is pointing upward, but with long narrow 'fingers' , a strong character of bifurcatum. Don't think it's a true alcicorne tho. coz a true one have more prominent 'fingers' pointing up and broader too.

I think the plant is still young. Some of other character are not quite ovious yet. The shield frond look roundish. Strange!! What do you all think??

The second plant is a hillii hybrid called hillii cv. magnificent. Pretty sure. It has broad fertile frond with few roundish fingers.

Nice healthy plants you have there Choong. Care to share with us pic. of your other platys......

[kltower]

Thanks attccmn. I will try to take pictures over the weekend.

Choong

[kltower]

Many young P. hillii cv Panama pictures I have seen showed the leaves to be round. However, this one

davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/132422/

showed stiffed leaves and looked quite similar to my first staghorm. What do you think?

Choong

[atmccmn]

Will take some photos of my hillii for some commentation and explanation.
Rgds,

AT

[atmccmn]

I have this P. hillii hyb. from an unknown source. It took me fews yerars to identify it. All that I conclude is that this is a P. hillii hybrid. As with what cultivars name, I would not comment further. Perhaps some Platy. specialist could give some insight into this discussion.

The fertile frond looks somewhat broader when young but turned long and narrow when the plant mature. The fingers are recurved outward heavy with spores patches. Some nurseryman gave it another name for this unique character. I grow this plant to it's fullest potential just to see its' character. That is without pups and well taken care of. Certain Platy will have different character at their growing developement. They are very intersting to study at!





Both of the pictures are of the same plant. The second pic is the pup detached from it's mother plant ( 1st pict.) It is still broad at the centre and not fully erect like it's mother plant.
The fertile fronds are roundish with less prominent fingers when it's still a pup as this is noticeable at the bottom right of my first picture.

[kltower]

Thanks AT.

That means I have two P. hillii hybrids. Anyway, here are the rest of my collection.

P. stemaria, I bought from Fung, at RM100, the most expensive in my collection.




P. coronarium, I think everyone has this.




P. bifurcatum cv "Netherland". They are sold in pots. I hope I got it the right way up.




P. ridleyi, since this local species is hard to come by, I did not mind paying RM25 for this. New leaves are appearing. At Fung, a very nice cabbage ball plant was selling for RM200!




Choong