Bird's nest fern
അസ്പ്ലേനിയം നിഡസ്
Asplenium nidus L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 76 cm
Aspleniaceae
Also called Bird's Nest Fern, Bird nest Fern, Paku Sarang Burung, Hawai'I birdnest fern
Formerly Asplenium ellipticum, Asplenium ficifolium, Neottopteris elliptica, Neottopteris nidus, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Epiphyte or lithophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Malesia to N. & NE. QueenslandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–5 ft; RHS 1–1.5 m
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 2–3 ft; RHS 0.5–1 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 7.2 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 4.4 °C; RHS 10 °C
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Portuguese
- Feto-ninho-de-ave
- Chinese
- 臺灣山蘇花, 巢蕨, 斩妖剑
- French
- Asplénie nid-d'oiseau
- Chinese (China)
- 鸟巢蕨
- Finnish
- pesäraunioinen
- Czech
- sleziník hnízdovitý
- Japanese
- シマオオタニワタリ
- German
- Nestfarn
- root
- Sruhin, Bukel beluu, Bukelbeluu
- Russian
- Костенец гнездовой
- Thai
- ข้าหลวงหลังลาย
- Danish
- fugleredebregne
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0 us
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Asplenium nidus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.