Species · genus Asplenium · Aspleniaceae
Bird’s-nest Fern
Asplenium antiquum Makino
Also known as: Japanese Bird's-nest Fern
Cultivars of A. antiquum
The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.
No named cultivars catalogued under A. antiquum yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.
Guide
The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.
Asplenium antiquum is a bird's-nest fern from the warm forests of East Asia, growing as an epiphyte or ground perennial in shaded, humid conditions. As an epiphyte it drains fast and resents sitting wet, so water when the top inch of mix is dry, keeping the central rosette free of standing water. It wants bright indirect light and high humidity, never direct sun.
Care recipe
The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.
Care notes are early — not yet verified
- Light
- ai:claude-opus-4-8
- Water
- ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d)
- Humidity
- ai:claude-opus-4-8
- Soil
- ai:claude-fable-5
- Care
- ai:claude-fable-5
Bright, indirect
≈ every 10 days
High
15–27 °C
Rich, loose, moisture-retentive mix with good drainage
Spores; division of clumps
Diluted balanced feed monthly in spring and summer
Slow
Never flowers — a fern, reproduces by spores
Not yet documented
This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
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No reference gallery yet
A few clear photos — habit, a mature leaf, a flower if it blooms — would give this page its eyes.
Add imagesSources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d) · ai:claude-fable-5
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