Australian Native Plants - Fern
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Asplenium australasicum
(Birds Nest Fern) |
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Height
fronds grow 5cm to 150cm long |
The Birds Nest Fern has large simple fronds that are light green, often crinkled, with a black midrib. They are epiphytes (sometimes terrestrial) often growing on the branches and trunks of trees. Spores develop in sori on the underside of the... Read more > |
Blechnum cartilagineum
(Gristle Fern) |
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Height
to 1m |
Blechnum cartilagineum is an attractive fern with crowded pale green fronds. Fronds are broad and feathery and about 20cm broad. Young fronds may be pink. Read more > |
Marsilea drummondii
(Common Nardoo) |
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The Common Nardoo is a small aquatic or subaquatic fern. Creeping to form mats by means of rhizomes that are often densely hairy when young and sometimes woody when older. Fronds are solitary or in clusters at the nodes on stalks (stipes) 3-30 cm... Read more > |
Platycerium bifurcatum
(Elkhorn Fern) |
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Height
90 cm
Spread
80 cm |
The Elkhorn is an epiphytic fern (a fern that grows on the branches of tree canopies or on fallen logs). The shield fronds are deeply lobed. The fertile fronds are strap shaped (to 3cm wide) and stand semi-erect, drooping downwards with age. The... Read more > |
Platycerium grande
(Staghorn Fern) |
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Height
fronds to 2m long |
The Staghorn fern is an epiphytic (a fern that grows on the branches of tree canopies or on fallen logs). Staghorn ferns develop deeply lobed sterile leaves, and basket shaped nest leaves that catch falling debris. Then nest leaves are green and... Read more > |
