Random Plant Growing out of my Tree Fern!

[RSS]

I have an orchid mounted to a tree fern slab and this little guy decided to make it his home. Any ideas for what it is?

A toothpick for size reference, he is a few months old. I think I want to keep him!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58628330@N04/5560147104/" title="012 by Simpsonrs, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5091/5560147104_dcce95c91f_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="012" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58628330@N04/5560147334/" title="013 by Simpsonrs, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5560147334_d1e4c11720_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="013" /></a>

 

[Taliesin-DS]

I think its a fern, it looks like some pyrrosia seedlings i have:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taliesin-ds/5553396884/

 

[DETHCHEEZ]

It's so small it's kind of hard to to tell...
But good luck with it...

 

[kulamauiman]

orchidoides?

 

[amphirion]

orchidoides?

one could only dream....

 

[RL7836]

I think its a fern, it looks like some pyrrosia seedlings i have:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taliesin-ds/5553396884/

Heck, to my untrained, uneducated eye - the leaves look similar to the miniature ferns you showed in a trade post a while back....

orchidoides?

Probably a stretch since it seems that most Orchidioides like some elevation between them & lowlands - and I suspect that most of the treefern collection comes from lowland areas. However, rumor has it that U. jamesoniana also has lowland forms ....

 

[kulamauiman]

U. amethystina seems to hitch rides with things from South America and does have similar shape..... Not an orchidoides but can dream....

 

[Cthulhu138]

I used to get these same little ferns sprouting out of the tree fern panels in my dart frog tanks.

 

[Taliesin-DS]

U. amethystina seems to hitch rides with things from South America and does have similar shape..... Not an orchidoides but can dream....

tree fern usually comes from new zealand (dicksonia antarctica)

 

[RSS]

I am growing a few Pyrrosia's but they have not produced any spores yet, a few other species have but they look nothing like this one. They don't match the baby or mature leaves of any ferns I'm intentionally growing. My first thought was a fern, but as its growing up I'm starting to hope for an Utric

 

[Taliesin-DS]

What about some other non lobed small fern like microgramma ?

 

[RSS]

What about some other non lobed small fern like microgramma ?

The handful of Microgramma species I'm growing don't look like that, the closest would be heterophylla but that has a "leaf" type shape.

With all the ferns out there .

Still hoping for a Utric

 

[Taliesin-DS]

it could also just be a temperate weed

 

[RL7836]

As RSS lets out one last attempt for some sympathy & hope ...

Still hoping for a Utric

Talie takes a massive sledge hammer & crushes the possibility ...

it could also just be a temperate weed

... and he won't even let his devastation take the form of a tropical weed, it's gotta be temperate ....

 

[RSS]

Well the mystery plant is a fern . Its a 3" or so now and I really don't know why I haven't "weeded" it yet.