This lovely bird's nest fern, Asplenium nidus L. is an evergreen epiphyte or occasional lithophyte, forming large clumps up to 2 m diameter. Rhizomes erect, fronds tufted. Lamina very shiny with black midrib (fide Verdcourt), coriaceous, narrowly elliptic.
The genus name Asplenium comes form Latin asplēnum, form Greek asplēnon spleenwort, form a- not + splēn spleen (form its reputed medicinal properties).
Asplenium nidus
Asplenium nidus is ca. 15 cm tall and comes in a 6 cm pot
