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Bird's Nest Fern, also known as the Nest Fern, Mountain Sulphur, Crown Fern, is a perennial, shady herbaceous foliage plant of the genus Nest Fern in the family Ferocactaceae.

Bird's Nest Fern

Chinese Name: Bird's Nest Fern

External Name: Neottopteris antiqua

Alias: Nest Fern, Mountain Sulphur Fern, Crown Fern

Dichotomous Names: Great Scale Nest Fern

Boundary: Kingdom Botany

Portal: Brachiophora

Family: Ferns

Class: Ferns

Elements: Ferns

Phyllaceae: Ferns

Phytophore: Ferns p>

Order: Ferns

Family: Fernaceae

Genus: Nest Fern

Region: Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hainan, Yunnan

Morphological Characteristics

Bird's Nest Fern is a medium-sized epiphytic fern, with the shape of the plant in the form of a funnel or bird's nest, and the plant height of 60-120 centimeters.

Bird's Nest Fern(20 pictures)

The rhizome is short and erect, and the stalk is robust and densely packed with large spongy fibrous roots, which can absorb a lot of water. Leaves are clustered, radially arranged at the top of the rhizome, hollow as a nest-shaped structure, capable of collecting fallen leaves and bird droppings; leathery leaves are broadly lanceolate, about 100 centimeters long, 9-15 centimeters wide in the middle, smooth on both sides, and slightly elevated on both sides of the leaf veins. Sporangium group long strip, born in the leaf dorsal lateral veins on the upper side of the blade up to 1/2.

Origin and distribution

The bird's nest fern is native to tropical subtropical regions, China Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan and other places are distributed, subtropical other regions are also distributed.

Growth habit

The Bird's Nest Fern is often attached to tree trunks in rainforests or monsoon rainforests or on rocks in the understory. Cluster integration

Bird's Nest Fern (20 pictures)

The nest of the bush can receive a large number of dead branches and leaves, bird droppings and rainwater, which are converted into humus, which can be used as its own nutrients, and can also provide conditions for other tropical epiphytes, such as orchids and other tropical epiphytic ferns, to settle. Its ecological habit is to prefer high temperatures and humidity, and is intolerant of strong light.

Propagation and Cultivation

Bird's Nest Fern

Bird's Nest Fern can be propagated by spore seeding and division. Spore propagation has been widely used as commercial mass production. In general, it can be propagated by division. When the plant grows large, small branches often appear. You can use a sharp knife to slowly cut off the parts of the plant that need to be divided before the new shoots come out in late spring and early summer, and then plant them separately. Bird's nest fern produces fewer branches, less common to use the method of dividing the ionic plants, usually the growth of robust plants in late spring from the base part of the cut into 2-4 pieces, and cut the fronds shortened by 1/3-1/2, so that each piece with part of the fronds and rhizomes, and then individually potted to become a new plant; potted after the potting in the temperature of 20 or more in the semi-shade and the air humidity place maintenance After potted, place the plant in a place with high air humidity and half shade at a temperature above 20 degrees Celsius in order to heal the wound as soon as possible. Cultivation substrate in pots slightly moist, not too wet, otherwise easy to rot. When the new leaves are born can gradually restore the original shape.