PlantFiles Pictures: Ridley's staghorn (Platycerium ridleyi), 1 by chanin

chanin wrote:
Kell and all,
...PLEASE DO NOT SHOCK !!! IF YOU SEE THE PHOTO BELOW...

Nothing much...it just I was looking at a mess of the most sought after staghorn. Everybody should ask...WHERE ?!!

Well...this is a local market near the border checkpoint of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. Overthere you will find Burmese people carried a "wild stuff" : staghorns, orchids, epiphytes,all rare Lycopodium sp., Hoya, Cycad, caudiciform, etc....from somewhere else in the deep jungle out there of Myanmar and offered them to the customers..from around the world!!!

You would note that there is also a big clump of Platycerium coronarium at the bottom of picture too.

Sadly, most of obtained stuffs by who that didn't know how to take care of them will finally "Back to the jungle!! (dead!)