EVERYPlant King Fern for Vue

Name: King Fern

Scientific: Angiopteris evecta

A.K.A.: Giant Fern Elephant Fern, Oriental Vessel Fern, Madagascar Tree Fern, Mule's Foot Fern

Notes: A very large rainforest fern native to most parts of Southeast Asia and Oceania. It has a history dating back about 300 million years, and is believed to have the longest fronds of any fern in the world. The trunk-like rhizome is massive, measuring up to 1m. The older portions of the rhizome lie on the ground while the newer growth may rise vertically up to 1.2m high. The arching, glossy green fronds, which emerge from the tip of the rhizome, may reach up to 9m long and 2.5m wide, but despite their enormous size they have no woody strengthening tissues in the fronds to keep them erect -- instead they are supported entirely by the hydraulic pressure of the sap. Fossilised fronds bearing a distinct similarity to this plant have been found in Paleozoic rocks from every continent, indicating that the species is very primitive and was widespread around 300 million years ago, a time when ferns and their relatives were the dominant plants on the planet. The geographically isolated communities seen today point to favourable climatic conditions being more widespread in the past.

Presets in this Package: 12 High Poly and 12 Low Poly.
1. Standard. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
2. Thriving. Peak health.
3. Distressed. Declining health with some diseased and broken foliage.
4. Unhealthy. Poor state with considerable foliage missing or diseased.
5. Dying. Just hanging onto life and showing only unhealthy and diseased foliage.
6. Dead. Showing only bare and broken branches and dead foliage.
7. Ancient. Very old plant, larger and considerably gnarled.
8. Young. Smaller plant, fully mature but still growing.
9. Growing. Plant not yet mature, some half way through its growing cycle.
10. Immature. Very small and young plant.
11. Forming. Extremely young and small but taking on its adult shape with fiddleheads unfurling
12. Fiddleheads. Extremely young with its fronds still to unfurl.

All models can be switched between High Poly for close up renders, image or video production, and Low Poly for distant renders, use as game assets, or in real-time applications. All materials in this package are certified PBR compliant and have been tested in Unity and Unreal. Any reasonable modification available upon request. No charge to existing customers of the product, please contact via site mail.

Included are two versions, a full and a LITE version. Both versions give good results, but the full version is more accurate and better for hero or close up renders. The LITE version is intended mainly for mid or distant renders or eco use, or use on low end PCs.

EVERYPlant has a mission ... which is to model every plant species in the world (plus some extinct, fantasy and sci-fi variations as well)! Okay, maybe not EVERY plant! If you don't see it in our store, please get in contact; we have thousands of species on file awaiting upload.

Software: Vue 2024

Where to buy: Renderosity

Publish date: February 26, 2025