My main gardening talent is destroying things, and I thought I’d found a weedy fern to aim my saw at. The plant app told me I had a holly fern, but I flipped the leaf and found stripes rather than dots on the back. A spleenwort! Shining spleenwort/huruhuruwhenua (Asplenium oblongifolium), a glossy native fern.
Unfurling 
Stripes not dots!
On my last trip up the rope ladder, I’d seen it on the jungly bank too. It’s growing in the boughs of a māhoe tree as an epiphyte – a plant that grows on another plant, but takes no nutrients from the tree itself. Elevated off the ground, there’s a little clump of fronds unfurling.
Epiphytic spleenwort 
Spiral 
Shining spleenie
kōwhai 