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fiddlehead fern
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fiddlehead fern

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Also known as fiddleheads, fiddlehead greens

thumb|upright=1.2|Fiddlehead ferns thumb|A chicken dish including fiddleheads thumb|Fiddleheads growing thumb thumb|Fiddlehead sculpture at the Saint John Arts Centre by sculptor Jim Boyd in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
vegetable
Part of
fern
Named after
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Image
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Commons category
Fiddlehead ferns
natural product of taxon
Matteuccia struthiopteris
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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • Varieties
  • Sources and harvesting
  • Culinary uses
  • Asian cuisine
  • Indian cuisine
  • Nepali cuisine
  • North American cooking
  • Māori cuisine
  • Constituents
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.2|Fiddlehead ferns thumb|A chicken dish including fiddleheads thumb|Fiddleheads growing thumb thumb|Fiddlehead sculpture at the Saint John Arts Centre by sculptor Jim Boyd in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds from a fledgling fern, harvested for use as a vegetable.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fiddlehead fern” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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