Pteridium caudatum
(L.) Maxon
Southern bracken fern
DennstaedtiaceaeLeaves
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fronds, Leaves
The young shoots are cut into small pieces and boiled or stewed with pork and eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Is.,Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Galapagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, USA, Venezuela,
Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Angola, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Brazil, Bahamas, Botswana, Belize, Canada, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Grenada, French Guiana, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Comoros, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, El Salvador, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Trinidad & Tobago, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, St Vincent, Venezuela, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A subtropical fern (Dennstaedtiaceae) with edible fronds and young shoots.
Names & Synonyms
Samambia
Pteridium aquilinum var. caudatum (L.) Sadeb.Pteridium aquilinum subsp caudatum (L.) Bonap.Pteris aquilina var. caudata (L.) LinkPteris aquilina var. mexicana FeePteris caudata L.Pteris caudata var. mexicana Feeand others
References (6)
- Chin, W.Y., 1998, Ferns in the Tropics. Kangaroo. p 158
- Fagg, C. W. et al, 2015, Useful Brazilian plants listed in the manuscripts and publications of the Scottish medic and naturalist George Gardner (1812–1849). Journal of Ethnopharmacology 161 (2015) 18–29
- Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst. 14(Beih. 3):5. 1896
- Jardin, C., 1970, List of Foods Used In Africa, FAO Nutrition Information Document Series No 2.p 112
- Kew Plants of the World Online
- Moerman, D. F., 2010, Native American Ethnobotany. Timber Press. p 454
