Only Australian tree fern is identifiable. Another is just, well, . . . weird.
1. Alocasia odora, taro was installed by a tenant, into a situation that was too dark for it. Now that the tenant is gone, and before another arrives, I brought it back to the nursery for reassignment. The holes in the leaves are from redwood twigs that fell from very high up. I can not identify its cultivar, and am not ever sure if it is an Alocasia or a Colocasia.
2. Sphaeropteris cooperi, Australian tree fern was next to the taro, so came here with it. Although otherwise healthy, its etiolated leaves were reaching towards limited sunlight.
3. Sphaeropteris cooperi, Australian tree fern that I tried to recycle from the garden of a former neighbor did not survive. It is a saddening loss. It was an excellent tall specimen.
4. Nephrolepis cordifolia, sword fern might make good use of the trunk of this deceased Australian tree fern. Technically, the trunk is not actually a trunk at all; but is merely an accumulation of roots that extended downward through the decayed stem of the original fern. Perhaps the roots of this sword fern can do the same before the dead original roots deteriorate. It seems like a graft, but of course it is not. Nor is it a hybrid. It is just weird.
5. Brugmansia, angel’s trumpet of an unidentified cultivar is blooming for the first time. It has been with me for a few years, but dies back each winter. Before it recovers enough to bloom, it dies back again. I got it as a twig from a greenwaste recycle pile in San Jose.
6. Brugmansia, angel’s trumpet should be pastel orange. I took the original twig because I assumed that it was of a specimen that bloomed pastel orange. Does this look orange?!
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Tony Tomeo 
I tried to get a young plant of Dicksonia antarctica going in the top of a deceased trunk of the same thing. It failed. I guess you’d need several years of careful watering for the roots to reach soil level and spread enough to support the crown at the top. Good luck with yours.
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Oh, so this is not the first attempt. It is out in the weather for now, so will get rain through winter. Since it is not in a landscape yet, I could give it an emitter for irrigation after winter. I suspect that the ‘trunk’ will rot before roots reach the ground. Of course, if it does, I could cut the upper portion off, and plug it into the ground independently. It is not as if the roots of the ‘trunk’ are doing anything now. I plugged sword fern only because it was available. I should have plugged something that would have been more interesting. However, sword fern grows in the canopies of palm trees, where it seems to get what it needs. As infested palms grow, the fern grows upward with them. Some types of Ficus can grow within the canopies of palms, and root into the trunks of the palms. Their roots sometimes extend from the trunks, and back into them. It is creepy.
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Nice Angel Trumpet again. I can’t tell the Alocasias or Colocasias apart.
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Alocasia leaves generally point upward. Colocasia leaves generally point downward.
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Nicwe for you that your “orange” Brugmansia blooms in your favorite color!
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Yes, but it is a rather pale white, without fragrance. We already grow both single and double white, which are nice bright white, and fragrant. I suspect that the color is lacking because it bloomed so late. It might actually bloom pale orange during warm weather next year, it if does not get too frosted this winter. I intend to protect it. It frosted last night, but only the foliage was ruined, which is quite normal here. I do not want the stems to succumb.
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I can’t grow Australian tree ferns, here because it it too hot and dry here, ironically. Love your white Angel’s trumpet.
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Too hot and dry?! They perform well in the Los Angeles region, which is rather arid at times, although not too terribly hot for too long. The white angel’s trumpet ir not as pretty as the other two white angel’s trumpets here. It is rather pale. I hope that it blooms pastel orange next year. I suspect that the color was compromised by the late bloom during cooling weather.
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I love the way you take in strays of questionable provenance and then wonder why they’re acting so strangely. Please never stop. Maybe the brug will color up later on? That Frankenfern is fascinating and I’m rooting for it to… well, root…
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Everything in my garden, and much of what we grow at work, is from ‘somewhere’. Most of the perennials have been with me for decades. I still grow the same rhubarb that my great grandfather gave me before I was in kindergarten. I still grow the same lily of the Nile that I grew in junior high school. I am a horticulturist. I grow things. Growing what someone else grew is not quite the same.
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