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(First upload on May 5 2018. Last on April 15 2022) [ 日本語 | English ]

Asplenium nidus L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Asplenium L. (チャセンシダ)
Shima-o-taniwatari (シマオオタニワタリ, 島大谷渡), bird's-nest fern)
Life form: epiphytic, evergreen fern
Distribution: eastern Africa - India - Christmas Island - tropical southeastern Asia, including Kyushu, Ryukyu and Bonin of Japan, - eastern Australia - Polynesia - Hawaii

RDB of Japan: IB (EN, endangered)

Habitat: on rocks and trees, shade-tolerant
cv. avis
Leaf: short and broad, as compared with the type
Use: ornamental
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Asplenium nidus in southeastern Asia


ST1 ST2 ST3
[1-3] in Rokko Alpine Botanical Garden, Kobe, western Japan, on March 17 2019.

cv. avis

ST1 ST2 ST3
[1-3] at Sakuya Konohana Kan (咲くやこの花館) located in Osaka, western Japan, on February 6 2022.

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