What have you got in foliage? - Page 86

iljjlm · #**851** (**permalink**) 05-30-2010, 05:59 PM

Pleopeltis polypodioides
I have 4 logs full of this in my yard. Smallest log is about 4 ft.

Dave

JimO · #**852** (**permalink**) 05-30-2010, 10:03 PM

Resurrection fern - one of my favorite plants. It's an epiphyte that I see most frequently growing on the trunks and larger horizontal branches of large live oaks. It's called resurrection fern because it turns brown and goes dormant during dry periods and greens out in a matter of hours after a good solid rain.

Unfortunately, I've found that it doesn't do well in my vivarium. I presume that it needs the dry dormant periods to thrive. I guess you could remove it periodically and let it dry out, but for me there is so much growing nearby to enjoy that I don't want to go to the trouble of trying to keep it.

JimO · #**853** (**permalink**) 05-30-2010, 10:14 PM

Here's a photo showing it in wet and dry conditions.

polpolts.jpg

JoshK · #**854** (**permalink**) 05-30-2010, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by JimO

Resurrection fern - one of my favorite plants. It's an epiphyte that I see most frequently growing on the trunks and larger horizontal branches of large live oaks. It's called resurrection fern because it turns brown and goes dormant during dry periods and greens out in a matter of hours after a good solid rain.

Unfortunately, I've found that it doesn't do well in my vivarium. I presume that it needs the dry dormant periods to thrive. I guess you could remove it periodically and let it dry out, but for me there is so much growing nearby to enjoy that I don't want to go to the trouble of trying to keep it.

I have it doing well in more than one viv. It likes to stay high and dry, I mist it very rarely and it seems to like that. The new leaves don't look as nice as the old IMO, but it still looks neat. It is also important to leave it attached to the original bark.

hydrophyte · #**855** (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 09:11 AM

I have always wondered about using that P. polypodioides. I have heard more than once that it can't make it long-term without a dry and cool winter dormancy.

harrywitmore · #**856** (**permalink**) 06-13-2010, 01:38 PM

This is a Begonia which I really have no idea where I got it or what it is. It's a scandent species and very nice in my opinion. Anyone know which species it is?

james67 · #**857** (**permalink**) 06-13-2010, 02:42 PM

ive had p. polypodioides in a viv for over 2 years w/o a dormancy period and its doing fine.

james

Frogtofall · #**858** (**permalink**) 06-13-2010, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by harrywitmore

This is a Begonia which I really have no idea where I got it or what it is. It's a scandent species and very nice in my opinion. Anyone know which species it is?

This is really nice. It doesn't look like a climber though. Please tell me you have photos of it climbing up a tree in the GH or something. I'd love to see!!! Probably amazing...

harrywitmore · #**859** (**permalink**) 06-13-2010, 07:17 PM

I wish. This is still a small plant in a 4" pot. I thought it was a B burkillii for a long time but then it grew out and it's definitely not that. I'll get an overhead picture to show the way it grows.

JimO · #**860** (**permalink**) 06-13-2010, 07:23 PM

Just so you know, I'm not a plant person, even though I love vivarium plants. This first photo is of a fern that grew as a volunteer. I don't know what it is or whether it's okay for the viv, but I like it.

Fern 1.jpg

This ficus vine got a slow start, but it's going like gangbusters and I have to trim it back on a regular basis.

Ficus vine.jpg