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How edible/delicious are these rhizones?

17 years ago

Greetings! Have you any information about the edibility of the roots/rhizones of these fern species?:

  1. Asplenium bulbiferum "Hen & Chick Fern"

    2.+Matteuccia pensylvania "Ostrich Fern"

    3.+/++Polysticum munitum "Giant Holly Fern" "western Sword Fern"

    +species supposedly spreads fast and can be invassive.

    ++JLHudsen lists this species as "The thick roots were peeled and roasted in embers or cooked like potatoes with salmon eggs by Northwest Indians.

    Said to have a banana-like flavor" .

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