Diplazium esculentum

Diplazium esculentum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
(unranked): Eupolypods II
Family: Athyriaceae
Genus: Diplazium
Species: D. esculentum
Binomial name
Diplazium esculentum
(Retz.) Sw.
Synonyms

Athyrium esculentum

Growing along a stream
Yam phak khut: a Thai salad of fern leaves and pork

Vegetable fern (Diplazium esculentum) is an edible fern found throughout Asia and Oceania. It is probably the most commonly consumed fern.[1] The young fronds are stir-fried as a "vegetable" or used in salads.[2][3]

In Hawaii it is used to make pohole.

Description

It is known as pucuk paku in Malaysia, paco in the Philippines,[2] dhekia (ঢেকীয়া) in Assam "Dhenkir Shaak (ঢেঁকির শাক) in Bengali, and linguda in northern India, referring to the curled fronds. In Thailand it is known as phak khut (Thai: ผักกูด). They may have mild amounts of fern toxins but no major toxic effects are recorded.[4]

Diplazium esculentum is sometimes grown as a house plant.

The genus Diplazium is in the family Athyriaceae, in the eupolypods II clade[5] of the order Polypodiales,[6] in the class Polypodiopsida.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Anonymous. "Vegetable fern". Use and production of D. esculentum. AVRDC (The World Vegetable Center). Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Copeland EB (1942). "Edible Ferns". American Fern Journal 32 (4): 121–126. doi:10.2307/1545216.
  3. ↑ Ethnobotanical Leaflets
  4. ↑ Gangwar Neeraj Kumar (2004). "Studies on pathological effects of linguda (Diplazium esculentum, Retz.) in laboratory rats and guinea pigs". Indian Journal of Veterinary Pathology 28 (2).
  5. ↑ Carl J. Rothfels, Anders Larsson, Li-Yaung Kuo, Petra Korall, Wen- Liang Chiou, Kathleen M. Pryer (2012). "Overcoming Deep Roots, Fast Rates, and Short Internodes to Resolve the Ancient Rapid Radiation of Eupolypod II Ferns". Systematic Biology 61 (1): 70.
  6. ↑ Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Harald Schneider (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns". Phytotaxa 19: 7–54.
  7. ↑ Alan R. Smith, Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Petra Korall, Harald Schneider & Paul G. Wolf (2006). "A classification for extant ferns". Taxon 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646.