Vegetable Fern
Diplazium esculentum
- Habit
- Herb-Terrestrial
- Found in India
- Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal & more
How to identify Vegetable Fern
Identify Vegetable Fern by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb-terrestrial habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Young fiddleheads eaten as a vegetable (vegetable fern).
- Confirm leaf type: Bipinnately compound.
- In India, compare location records such as Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Kerala and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Athyriaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Vegetable Fern.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Diplazium esculentum
- Genus
- Diplazium
- Family
- Athyriaceae
- Habit
- Herb-Terrestrial
- Habitat
- In open marshy places along streams and river banks
- Habitat type
- Wetland
- Native to
- Asia
- Distribution
- India, China, Formosa, Malaysia east to Philippines, New Guinea, Samoa
- Found in India
- Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Sikkim
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Bipinnately compoundrecordedThe leaf is divided twice — each 'leaflet' is itself a row of smaller leaflets, giving a fine, fern-like look.“The plant is bipinnate with long brownish petioles, and the petiole base is black and covered with short scales.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Vegetable Fern itself; the rest are typical of the Athyriaceae family.
About Vegetable Fern
Vegetable Fern (Diplazium esculentum) is a ground herb in the Athyriaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and 6 other states. It grows in in open marshy places along streams and river banks.
Athyriaceae
Lady Fern Family
Vegetable Fern belongs to the Athyriaceae family.
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