Lost

We came a long way to visit this legendary tree supposedly harbouring close to a hundred clumps of Platycerium ridleyii but found it was hacked down, most likely for timber. The ferns were already cooked by the sun. Platycerium ridleyii is rarer and more slow growing than P. coronarium and each of these clumps (some more than 50cm in diameter, basal fronds only) would have fetched a very good price. If alive. This tree also appeared to be of extraordinary size, although the main trunk had been taken away.