Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets Osmunda cinnamomea
Edible: Fronds, Leaves, Vegetable
A fern. The fronds grow 40-100 cm high and are 15-25 cm wide. The fronds are twice divided. The fertile and the sterile fronds are separate. The fertile fronds are erect and stout and have light brown spore bearing bodies.
It is a temperate plant. It grows in wet places and along the edges of stream and ponds. It grows in moist, shaded positions.
Common Names: Cinnamon fern, Rang atminh que, Zenmai
Synonyms:
Osmundastrum cinnamomea (L.) Presl.;