Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The elkhorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum) is a large bracket epiphyte. An epiphyte is a plant that grows on other plants and rocks rather than ...
Instead of growing in the ground, many Australian ferns attach themselves to trees (epiphytes) or rocks (lithophytes) and get their nutrients from decaying leaf matter and animal droppings that are ...