The Plant
The Johor fern is often taken for granted in tropical Singapore - or rather, by me - as it's rather widely available, especially in floral arrangements and corsages.
I've come to pay more attention to it, recently, and appreciate it for its elegant and intricate form. The stem has an good strong arc about it. It's my subjective opinion, but I think it complements orchids especially well.
Also, known as the Rabbit's foot, for the way the root/stem looks. It's brown and furry. Either that or the pinate leaves make it look like a rabbit's foot print. Either that or it originated when some goddess planted an amputated rabbit's foot. :S
The Photo was taken in a garden corner at suntec. The fern was growing on a Phoenix roebelenii if I don't recall wrongly. In Johor, the fern would be growing on the oil palm trees.
If I'm not mistaken, they welcome the fern as it prevents insects from entering the palm and so on.
The personal-take
When I was working for my parents, I once took on an order for 10,000 pieces of johor ferns. It was quite scary to see the entire packing house turned green with the ferns. Quite a traumatic experience, that led to the loss of some money and an invaluable lesson learnt by me, and that hit a nerve-still-too-raw to broadcast across the internet.
Posts
