You know that old-fashioned ribbon candy you sometimes find at Christmas?
Turns out it’s not inspired by ribbons at all.
It’s the spitting image of the bird’s nest fern (left).
I’m not a big plant-and-flowers kinda gal, but I think this one is a beauty.
And much like candy — which attaches itself to your hips and thighs upon ingestion — the bird’s nest fern attaches itself and grows upon another plant or a building.
How ironical.
