Asplenium nidus 'Crispy Wave', a cultivar of; Asplenium nidus L. is a; beautifully bright green fern with marvelous ribbon-shaped, ruffled leaves. It is an evergreen fern, 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. A beautiful epiphytic species of fern with spear-like fronds (leaves), with wavy edges which surround a fibrous ‘nest’ in the centre.
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The genus name Asplenium comes form Latin asplēnum, form Greek asplēnon spleenwort, form a- not + splēn spleen (form its reputed medicinal properties).
Asplenium nidus 'Crispy Wave'
Asplenium nidus 'Crispy Wave' comes in following sizes:
baby (XS) - is ca. 15 cm tall and comes in a 6 cm pot
M - is ca. 25 cm tall and comes in a 12 cm pot