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.
The genus name Asplenium comes form Latin asplēnum, form Greek asplēnon spleenwort, form a- not + splēn spleen (form its reputed medicinal properties).
Asplenium nidus 'CrispyWave'
Asplenium nidus 'Crispy Wave' is ca. 25 cm tall and comes in a 12 cm pot
