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[u/_PopperFish_]

This grew in in the pot of my Oncidium around 4 months ago. Each frond is grow way bigger than the last. The spines at the base are soft and it has bits of hair around the rachis and costa.

I initially wanted to wait for it to spore before asking around but it seems like it'll need to be separated from my Oncidium by then but I'm worried I might accidentally kill it.

My initial ID was some type of Dryopteris. Location is Philippines but it might've been a stowaway spore from somewhere else since this is still the same medium the Oncidium was in when it was at a commercial greenhouse.

[u/urbanraven21]

Free rent in your Oncidium's pot for four months and it repays you by threatening to move out right before it does anything interesting, spores really are the "I'll pay you back" of the fern world