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Asplenium gracillimum
Also called Spleenworts
Asplenium gracillimum is a slender, graceful bush fern from Australia and New Zealand, usually grown as a shade-loving foliage plant in moist, humid conditions. The key to growing it is keeping the soil and air humid and avoiding harsh sun.
Asplenium gracillimum is a fern species native to Australia and New Zealand, also found in Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands. The specific epithet gracillimum refers to the slender and graceful appearance of this fern.
The hen and chicken fern commonly grows in most bush areas in New Zealand. It thrives in many situations from shade to partial sunlight. Often seen in moist or rainforest areas in eastern Australia, occasionally as an epiphyte on tree ferns or tree trunks.
Bird’s Nest Fern · Hen And Chickens · Scott's Spleenwort · Singlesorus spleenwort · Hawai'I birdnest fern · Hart's tonguefern · Maidenhair Spleenwort · Spleenwort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asplenium gracillimum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
