#Asplenium sclopendrium

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Becoming spleenwort savvy - Learning about some European Spleenworts (Asplenium spp.)

In the tropics where I grew up, the so called Bird’s-nest fern (Asplenium nidus) was all around, and that was my very early introduction to the large genus Asplenium, which comprises of some 700 species. When I studied in Tasmania, I learnt of a number of beautiful Southern hemispheric spleenworts (e.g. see my post on Asplenium obtusatum in Tasmania). Encountering their temperate northern…