Bird's Nest

Morphology and Habits
:Bird's Nest ferns belong to the iron horn ferns, is many years later evergreen endoenic ferns, plant height up to 1 meter -1.2 meters, short root stems, top fibrous branches, curls. The leaves are born at the top of the short stems and are arranged in a radiant shape around them, with a cylindrical shape of the leaf handle, which is about 5 cm long, and the leaves are broadly cloaked with needles, grassy, light green, smooth on both sides, and the leaves are about 100 cm long. Bird's Nest plant-shaped plump, leafy green, is the layout of the hall, the venue and the production of flower baskets of good leaf-viewing materials. The bird's nest is native to tropical and subtropical regions, which are cool and insulable to low temperatures. It can be attached to a tree trunk in the tropics.


breeding and cultivation:


The breeding of the bird's nest slugs, usually by sub-breeding method, will be dense potted nests, even the roots of the leaves divided into 5 pieces - 7 leaves a clump, respectively implanted in the basin, sheltered in the shade for conservation, until the new leaves issued for life. In addition, spores can also be reproduced, the spore sacs born on the upper side of the leaf veins are removed, evenly spread on the surface of peat rotting leaves, sprinkled with a thin layer of fine sand, often sprayed to keep the soil surface moist, 50 days to 60 days can grow new spores.

The bird's nest can grow in the dark for a long time, avoid direct light, very suitable for indoor viewing. The relative humidity of the air is more than 80%, so in indoor maintenance, it is required to spray the leaf surface. Magpie acidic soil. Winter temperatures must not be lower than 10 degrees Celsius. Hi fertile, can be every 10 days to cast 1 overseas Chinese thin rotten cake fertilizer.

The conservation and management of ferns is more extensive, the ability to resist pests and diseases is very strong, usually as long as the water is properly mastered, do not over-dry, too wet, generally will not be infected by pests and diseases.