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Also recorded as: 棉花雲 · コットンクラウド All names
The most useful recognition guide is the combination of thick pale fronds, abundant white stellate hairs, and a soft, broadly curving form. Full description
Cultivated Cotton Cloud sporeling selection at Haruhana in Taiwan, showing the high crown, thick pale shield fronds, and densely covered fertile fronds.
Mature · July 31, 2024 · © Haruhana · All rights reservedA pale, full-sized P. willinckii selection with thick fronds and a soft, broadly curving outline. Mature appearance can change with light, humidity, nutrition, and available growing space.
The shield fronds are described in cultivation as thick and pale, with the upper portion capable of forming a high crown. Dense white stellate hairs can give young and mature shields a velvety appearance.
The fertile fronds are thick, pale silver-white, and softly curved. Their dense covering of fine stellate hairs creates the cotton-cloud appearance for which the plant is named.
The most useful recognition guide is the combination of thick pale fronds, abundant white stellate hairs, and a soft, broadly curving form. Appearance alone cannot verify the original clone; dependable provenance to the documented mother plant remains important.
Trade name · English
Translated name · Traditional Chinese
Romanized name · Japanese
Reported originJapan · Japan
Cotton Cloud is a Japanese Platycerium willinckii selection named by Naohiro Narisawa, the founder and grower behind comolebi plants. Sabrina Wang of Haruhana confirmed Narisawa’s naming role and connection to the nursery. The Japanese grower known publicly as Taroudayo2014, or Taro, later documented a Cotton Cloud mother plant and distributed divisions from it. That establishes Taro as a holder and distributor of the clone, not as its namer.
2023
Naohiro Narisawa of comolebi plants chose the name Cotton Cloud for the plant’s thick pale fronds and dense white covering, which give it a soft, cloud-like appearance. 棉花雲 is the Traditional Chinese rendering used in Taiwan, and コットンクラウド is the Japanese phonetic rendering.
Sabrina Wang of Haruhana identified Naohiro Narisawa as the person who named Cotton Cloud.
Whole-plant view of Haruhana’s cultivated Cotton Cloud sporeling selection in Taiwan, showing its upright crown and broad spread of pale fertile fronds.
Mature · July 31, 2024 · © Haruhana · All rights reservedSide view of the pale fertile fronds on Haruhana’s Cotton Cloud sporeling selection, showing their thick white covering and gently hanging lobes.
Fertile frond · July 31, 2024 · © Haruhana · All rights reservedClose view of a developing fertile-frond tip, showing the dense pale surface covering and early terminal divisions.
Fertile frond · July 31, 2024 · © Haruhana · All rights reservedAn offset from the original Cotton Cloud plant continues that clone. Spore-grown descendants are genetically new plants and can vary in whiteness, thickness, frond shape, and growth habit. They should be labeled as Cotton Cloud sporelings or Cotton Cloud-derived sporelings rather than represented as the original Cotton Cloud clone. CCS is widely used for these spore-grown descendants, but the exact intended expansion of the initials has not yet been confirmed. Haruhana also maintains and distributes offsets from its own documented CCS mother plant; those offsets continue that particular CCS selection and do not by themselves establish descent from the original Japanese Cotton Cloud clone.
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Identity
Cotton Cloud is consistently documented in Japanese and Taiwanese horticulture as a selected form of Platycerium willinckii.
Description
Cotton Cloud is recognized in cultivation for thick pale fronds densely covered in fine white stellate hairs, producing a soft cotton-cloud appearance.
Propagation
An offset from the original Cotton Cloud mother is vegetatively continuous with the selected clone.
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Front view of a young fertile-frond tip, documenting its compact branching and velvety white covering.
Fertile frond · July 31, 2024 · © Haruhana · All rights reservedDeveloping fertile-frond tips against the upright shield crown, showing the contrast between the pale fertile fronds and green backlit shields.
Fertile frond · July 31, 2024 · © Haruhana · All rights reservedPropagation
Plants raised from Cotton Cloud spores are genetically new individuals and can differ from the original clone.
Cultivation history
Haruhana documents a CCS mother plant and distributes vegetative offsets from it.
Origin
The Japanese grower known publicly as Taroudayo2014 held a Cotton Cloud mother plant and distributed plants described as divisions from it. Huang Shijie identified Taro as the source of the clone in his collection.
Name origin
Naohiro Narisawa, the Japanese Platycerium grower who founded comolebi plants, chose the name Cotton Cloud.
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Taroudayo2014 collection — P. willinckii cv. Cotton Cloud ↗︎2023CALM Plants
ビカクシダ コットンクラウド（P. willinckii cotton cloud) ↗︎2024Huang Shijie (黃仕傑)
Cultivation of P. willinckii Cotton Cloud / 棉花雲 ↗︎Date not establishedHaruhana / 晴花鹿苑
P. willinckii CCS ↗︎Date not establishedJohnny Lee
Interview with Sabrina Wang about Cotton Cloud2026Hankyu Department Store
GREEN AGE FES — Naohiro Narisawa / comolebi plants ↗︎Date not establishedTalk with other growers about this plant. Ask a question, share a photo, or tell us how you grow it. Member posts and photos are separate from the reviewed registry record.
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