Bird's nest fern (Latin name: Asplenium nidus), also known as spike thorn, is a perennial shade herb foliage plant belonging to Pteris. The plant is 80- 100 cm high, with erect rhizomes, short and thick, woody, about 2 cm thick, dark brown, and the top is densely covered with scales; Scales are broad-lanceolate, about 65438 0 cm long, tapering at the top, entire, film-like, dark brown and slightly shiny. Bird's nest fern is an epiphytic fern, native to Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, Indonesia, India and eastern Africa, and widely distributed in tropical China. It has the effects of strengthening bones and muscles, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and can also be used for traumatic injury, fracture, blood stasis, headache, bloody stranguria, impotence and gonorrhea.

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Bird nest fern

Latin scientific name

Pteris honeycomb

Another name

Nest fern, hawthorn flower, crown fern