It has a very high ornamental value. The lower part of the leaf is much more than the upper part, and the shape of the leaf is very huge. It grows close to the trunk, and the average length of the large leaf is about 40 cm.
Because it grows mainly in Africa and other places, it is also called African antler fern. The spore leaf is huge but the nutrition leaf is very small. The shape of the spore leaf is like an elephant's ear, while the nutrition leaf is fan-shaped.
As the name suggests, leaves are shaped like kidneys, but not all leaves are shaped like kidneys. Only large spore leaves show the shape of human kidneys.
The lines on the leaves are clear and obvious, like a honeycomb, very beautiful
Leaf color and stem color are gray green, all the leaves are growing upward, different from other spore leaves, the spore leaves of antler fern is one big two wide, one small and narrow.
In general, the antlers are small in nutrition and large in spore leaves, while the antlers are large in nutrition and larger in spore leaves. The sporophyll often droops because the leaves are too large to stand.
The sporophylls are dark green, hard and upright.
