Allantodia maxima
(D. Don) Ching
MBG
Meise Botanic Garden
Meise Botanic Garden
What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves, Fronds, Vegetable
The leaves and fronds are boiled and eaten as a vegetable. The fronds are rubbed with cloth to remove hairs, then fried or pickled. Fronds are sold in local markets.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in ravines between 1,200-3,000 m above sea level.
Asia, Australia, Bhutan, China, Himalayas, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Northeastern India, Pakistan, Philippines, SE Asia, Sikkim, Taiwan, Vietnam,
How to Identify
A fern. It grows 1-2 m tall. The rhizome is thick and scaly. The stalks are 40-80 cm long. They are erect in tufts. The blades are 60-120 cm long by 30-60 cm wide. They are divided once or twice. There are 9-12 leaflets 15-30 cm long.
Other Information
Fronds are sold in local markets.
Notes
Also put in the family Woodsiaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Cha-kawk, Khasrod, Lengadu, Neuro, Sanq hav dal laiv
References (8)
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- Thakur, D., et al, 2017, Why they eat, what they eat: patterns of wild edible plants consumption in a tribal area of Western Himalaya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2017) 13:70 (As Diplazium maximum)
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