Deer Deer (Paltycerium bifurcatum) is a type of fern-pakuan plant that has a unique shape and exotic. No wonder if this plant is often found or maintained in the yard of the house as an ornamental plant because of the charm of beautiful leaf juntaian. As the name implies, this plant does have a similar appearance like a deer horn that hung down. Elk horn deer or also in the Java area people call it as a symbol of this deer, in addition to charm as an ornamental plant was also long been used as a traditional medicine ingredients. Deer deer leaves containing saponins, flavonoids and polyphenols has the property as an ingredient of herbal medicine.
plant This lives attached to other trees upright and sturdy, but not as a parasite (epiphytes). True epiphytes, with roots attached to other tree trunks or rocks. Stems of soft rhizome but tough and hard to cut and grow not spread, This plant is usually used as ornamental plants are usually kept in the yard of the house, taped to a tree or hung to give a natural impression on the garden. Some species produce saplings that can be separated from their mothers carefully and embedded elsewhere.
As an epiphytic plant, the Deer horns attach itself to the field of media or other plants but not harm (parasite) on its host. Characteristic of this nail plant is the shape of the leaves. Leaves Simbar Menjangan has two types of leaves (commonly called ental), which are sterile leaves (sterile) commonly referred to as leaf shields or stumps and fertile leaves (fertile) commonly referred to as leaf horn and sporofil leaves (because it produces spores as breeding tools).
This type of horn deer is most widely cultivated as an ornamental plant that has the most variant of cultivars compared to other platycerium types. It is also a kind of 'stubborn' and adaptable so it is easy to maintain. Naturally Platyperium bifurcatum species can be found in Malesia to Polynesia. Latin name of this plant comes from the word "bifurcate" which means branched or split.
Has relatively small fertile leaves, extends upward at the base, and dangles at the branching point with irregular branching directions. The sterile leaves grow around the cobs forming a crown shield with a crack at the top
As the name implies, this nail plant has a dangling leaves resembling deer horn form. Also called as a barrier to the land, these nails come from the islands of Java, Papua and some parts of southern Australia. The length or height of the horn can reach 40 to 90 cm. What a beautiful deer. Classified in epiphytic plants, ie plants that live by sticking to plants such as tree trunks or plants larger than the plant. Uniquely, in addition to ride in other plants, simbar can also grow and live on rocks and walls. This shows that this type of nail is an adaptive type, so you will not be bothered if cultivate it yourself around the house.
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