Bird Nest Fern

Asplenium nidus, also known as Bird Nest Fern is an epiphytic fern gaining foot hold on trees and rocks, often growing on the groung after falling from trees. The leaves can grow up to 1.4 metres long and form a nest-like rosette adapted to collect rainwater and trap nutrient rish debris and leaves falling from surrounding trees. Dead fronds remain on fern as a thick skirt beneath, ofter home to small animals and insects.