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Bird's Nest Fern
Bird's Nest Fern
Asplenium nidus
Plantae
UNCOMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Up to 15 yrs
Size
Medium
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Tropical rainforest
Range
Southeast Asia
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Spores
Defense
Camouflage
Status
Uncommon

About

Bird's Nest Fern is an epiphytic tropical fern whose broad, undivided fronds radiate from a fibrous central rosette that collects fallen debris to build its own nutrient-rich compost. Unlike most ferns with divided leaflets, each frond is a single strap-shaped blade that can exceed a metre in length in the wild forest canopy.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Polypodiopsida
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Aspleniaceae
Genus
Asplenium
Species
Asplenium nidus