On the island of Bali in the Indian Ocean, a Hindu 
girl offers a fragrant Frangipani blossom to Siva, 
God of Passion and Destruction—he who destroys 
to create. 
At the Plant and Flower Market on Quezon Boule- 
vard in Manila, Philippines, Birdsnest fern (Asplen- 
ium Nidus-Avis) is offered attached to the original 
branches on which it was growing in the jungle. 
At the entrance to a cave temple in the Sunda Is- 
lands grows a graceful Staghorn fern, Platycerium 
Willincki, out of a crevice of the rock. 
Staghorn ferns are mostly found growing on trees 
in the jungle. 
Many of the trees in and around the rubber planta- 
tions of Malaya are loaded with giant Staghorn 
ferns, Platycerium alcicorne. 
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