#Asplenium Plant

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Asplenium, commonly known as Bird's Nest Fern, is a low-maintenance indoor plant loved for its wavy, vibrant green fronds. Ideal for shaded spaces, it thrives in indirect light and humid conditions, making it perfect for homes and offices.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 26 September 2024

Growing in a churchyard wall was this small, evergreen fern Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort, common spleenwort, English maidenhair, green spleenwort, waterwort). This plants has creeping rhizomes and forms a rosette of blackish-stemmed fronds. It has a huge native distribution, including Europe, Asia, North America, Central and South America. A number of sub-species exist, each suited to the varying growing conditions.

Jill Raggett

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Taranaki Maunga

A 2,518 metres (8,261 ft) tall stratovolcano, ideally positioned to catch every change in the weather coming off the Tasman. As a result it gets up to 11 meters of rain a year, and the winds between the peak and the remains of its predecessor can exceed 130kph.

Naturally, of great importance to the local iwi, and it certainly made an impression of the Europeans too - although a lot of early paintings exaggerate the height.

watercolour by Charles Heaphy, some time between 1839 and 1849.

They named it Mt Egmont, although happily the original name is back to being the official one.

The volcano erupts, on average, every 90 years, with major eruptions every 500. Of considerably more concern are the repeated catastrophic cone collapses that turn most of the volcano into gigantic landslides sweeping fridge-sized boulders and smaller debris dozens of kilometers away from the volcano, and well past the current coastline.

Anyway, while we wait for it to go bang again, visitors can enjoy the fascinating change in vegetation as you go up the mountain. As you get higher and higher, the coastal vegetation is replaced by the goblin forests, contorted mossy woods dominated by Kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa), that developed after eruptions destroyed the preexisting podocarp and Nothofagus forest, and as you go higher the trees are replaced by tussock grasses and later alpine plants.

There are still kiwi in the national park, which is one reason dogs are strictly banned. The introduced stoats continue to be a problem - we saw one on one of the tracks.

There was also this building, a corrugated iron structure noteworthy for being the oldest such building left anywhere in the world. It was originally a fort, and still has gun slits. The windows are new.

Most of the species I saw around the visitors center are were new to me - I could have spent a week just phtographing the incredible lichens in the goblin forest. Here's some that weren't new.

And a few lichens I don't have an ID on.

[blogbirdfeather]

Asplenium ceterach (Ceterach officinarum)

Sintra/Portugal (23/11/2023)

[Nikon D850; AF 105mm Micro-Nikkor F2,8 with Circular Flash Nissin  MF 18; 1/250s; F14; 400 ISO]

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Maidenhair Spleenwort

Sunlight bringing out the contrasting vibrant green leaves and black stems of maidenhair spleenwort ferns.

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Maidenhair Spleenwort by Conall on Flickr.

This work is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

[davidtngbotany]

Discovering the links between the temperate and tropical flora

Botany both hot and cold. Join me on my 20+ year and ongoing journey looking for links between the tropical and temperate flora

How are the tropical and temperate floras linked? I spent a good part of my time as a botanist thinking about this. I was born in the tropics, and weaned on a tropical flora. There in the tropics, there is so much variety – enough for lifetimes of study. I thought I would stay there forever, exploring the great southeast Asian tropical flora. Yet, life brought me to the south temperate lands of…

[amongthebugs]

Gah im so jealous i cant grow massive Asplenium nidus like this in my state ☹️

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[girlinlovewiththeforest]

[tagong-boy]

Asplenium nidus “Avis”

シマオオワタリ（アスプレニウム・ニダス・アビス）

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 2 September 2023

On this stone wall a colony of Asplenium scolopendrium (hart's-tongue fern) have established along with a Fuchsia magellanica (hardy fuchsia). This hardy fern is normally found growing in damp, shady places in woodlands.

Jill Raggett

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people in the tags of the last post talking about x very specific plant family they know about that also has so so so soooooo much sex to the point of having a sex diagram with at least three interbreeding species and I want to start collecting them. so far I have the citrus sex triangle and that one asplenium fern sex triangle pls add more or suggest

[blogbirdfeather]

Asplenium billotii

Sintra/Portugal (23/11/2023)

[Nikon D850; AF 105mm Micro-Nikkor F2,8 with Circular Flash Nissin  MF 18; 1/250s; F13; 400 ISO]

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Sunlit Fern

Sunlight falling on a hart's-tongue fern, growing on top of a limestone rock in the bottom of Twywell Gullet.