What have you got in foliage? - Page 116

toksyn · #**1151** (**permalink**) 12-08-2011, 12:16 AM

Chuck, you've always got the best stuff.

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Nice plants Ritersofly.

Glad a few people enjoyed seeing the P. reptans.

Here's a nice uncommon form of the uncommon fern Peltapteris peltata.

Manuran · #**1152** (**permalink**) 12-08-2011, 11:08 PM

Hi Teddy. It's the natural progression of the hobby

In a few years you may start liking only brown frogs and green bromeliads! lol

Thanks Dev.
Just years of accumulating stuff lol

Here's a nice Trichomanes fern. It's a filmy fern with a wiry rhizome that likes to climb up things.

frogparty · #**1153** (**permalink**) 12-08-2011, 11:10 PM

I want one of those Chuck!!!! Send me a piece please!

toksyn · #**1154** (**permalink**) 12-09-2011, 12:06 AM

I second this motion. For me.

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I want one of those Chuck!!!! Send me a piece please!

dendrothusiast · #**1155** (**permalink**) 12-09-2011, 12:58 AM

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I want one of those Chuck!!!! Send me a piece please!

me three. I'de trade you some of my ferns but I'm sure you have plenty of the unusual ones already!

Manuran · #**1156** (**permalink**) 12-09-2011, 01:25 AM

Thanks guys! Lol, I always feel like a kid with 1 candy and 30 classmates.
I think it's why I tend to post a handful of pictures and then stop for awhile. I always feel bad when I don't have enough to share or even sell. There are plants I've been waiting in line for a long time and still can't get a piece. So I know that it kind of sucks. Some filmy ferns grow amazingly fast, others just creep along slowly. In the several years that I've had this one, I've only been able to send out a cutting once. Hopefully, I'll figure it out and it'll eventually be one of the fast ones!

While I'm at it here's another nice plant. It's a Begonia from Madagascar called lyallii var. masoalensis. The leaves are fairly small, the largest only a couple of inches across and it is a trailing type. The way it grows over things, makes you think of a fancy looking Begonia Lita...but better!

BonnieLorraine · #**1157** (**permalink**) 12-09-2011, 01:59 AM

What species is that Chuck? I only have the Trichomanes javanicum.

Manuran · #**1158** (**permalink**) 12-09-2011, 02:12 AM

Hi Bonnie,
I received it as T. ankersii, but many of the photos don't look like the same plant. There does seem to be a fair amount of variation, so possibly the one I have is just a different form. It does have the same growing habit though.

For years I would look for different species whenever a shipment of T. javanicum would come into the local petshops. Nothing different ever popped up though

Sad that they still sell it for aquariums, when they really don't grow underwater. Glad that you got some for your vivs. Are you having success growing them?

BonnieLorraine · #**1159** (**permalink**) 12-09-2011, 02:18 AM

Mines doing really well in a grow out tank, I just learned you can't leave it on the kitchen counter for 5 mins while mounting it (half the leaves dried up and died in that span). I saw some on ebay awhile back for around $30, but I don't think it had the species listed so I passed. I'm hoping to find some other species eventually, but it seems you have quite the wait list already heh.

Manuran · #**1160** (**permalink**) 12-09-2011, 02:28 AM

Yeah, you have to be really careful with the filmy ferns. The fronds are only 1 cell layer thick and they can desicate really quickly. Yeah, filmy's are few and far between. You usually can't think about it too much or someone else will buy them!
Glad to hear you are doing well with the javanicum.