Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds from a fledgling fern, harvested for use as a vegetable.
A chicken dish including fiddleheads
Fiddlehead sculpture at the Saint John Arts Centre by sculptor Jim Boyd in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Bucket of newly collected fiddleheads
Ferns are a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They reproduce in two phases, a short-lived gametophyte that reproduces sexually to develop a spore-b
Fiddlehead
…Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds from a fledgling fern, harvested for use as a vegetable. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond (circinate vernation). As fiddleheads are harvested…
The ferns of Great Britain, and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails
Flickr brewbooks Angiopteris evecta Mule's foot fern
WP2 Hymenophyllum Exkursion nach Berdorf 011