
	Where results make sense

Topic: Ostrich fern

Related Topics

Fern

Athyriales

Mosquito fern

Pteridopsida

Fiddlehead

Tree fern

Marattiopsida

Bracken

Ostrich

Cyanobacteria

Fibrous root system

Protist

Monophyletic

Minor planet

Mistletoe

In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Fern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of some twenty thousand species of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly known as Filicophyta.
		A fern is defined as a vascular plant that does not produce seeds, but reproduces by spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
		Osmunda regalis (royal fern) and Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern), the root fiber being used horticulturally; the fiddleheads of O.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fern (760 words)

	Fiddlehead Ferns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ostrich ferns bear their spores on separate, brown fronds which are smaller than the others and stand erect in the middle of the cluster.
		Ostrich fern is easy to gather in great quantities and for that reason has long been a popular green to store up for the winter by canning, a tradition that I still carry on.
		The spores of lady fern are borne on the underside of the frond rather than on a separate one like those of ostrich fern are.
	www.tracksandtrees.com /articles/fiddlehead.html (1746 words)

	Ostrich fern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is a crown-forming, colony-forming fern, occurring in northern regions worldwide, and in northern/central North America.
		This fern grows from a completely vertical crown, favoring riverbanks and sandbars, but sends out lateral stolons to form new crowns.
		The ostrich fern is a popular fern for the garden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ostrich_fern (160 words)

	Ostrich Fern Poisoning -- New York and Western Canada, 1994
		Fiddleheads (crosiers) of the ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) are a seasonal delicacy harvested commercially in the northeastern United States and in coastal provinces of Canada.
		Editorial Note: The ostrich fern was a spring vegetable for American Indians of eastern North America and became part of the regular diet of settlers to New Brunswick in the late 1700s (2).
		Although the ostrich fern accumulates some heavy metals (9), the symptoms reported in these outbreaks were not characteristic of heavy metal poisoning, and it is unlikely that absorption of heavy metals occurred at two different sites.
	www.cdc.gov /MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/00032588.htm (1555 words)

	Ferns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Along the floodplains of the river are areas with large populations of the ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris).
		Ostrich ferns can be identified by their characteristic stout erect rhizomes (stems) which are covered with the brown remains of last summer's leaves.
		Ostrich ferns in winter and early spring; note old sexual fronds attached to the rhizomes.
	www.bio.umass.edu /biology/conn.river/ferns.html (254 words)

	[No title]
		The family or genus of a fern is often determined by the shape of its indusium; e.g., the indusium of the woodsias is star-shaped; of the Dicksonias, cup-shaped; of the aspleniums, linear; of the wood ferns, kidney-shaped, etc.
		The fronds of the marsh fern are apt to be sterile in deep shade.
		The fragile bladder fern, as it is often called, and which the name _fragilis_ suggests, is the earliest to appear in the spring, and the first to disappear, as by the end of July it has discharged its spores and withered away.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/1/3/6/11365/11365.txt (18119 words)

	Buy Japanese painted ferns & mosses and ferns online
		Selected for their overall appeal, visual impact, and hardiness, our ferns are of the highest quality and are full-grown plants that are at least 5 years old.
		The low-maintenance Japanese painted fern is one of the showiest ferns for shade gardens.
		Japanese Painted Fern produces 12- to 18-inch fronds that are a soft shade of metallic silver-gray with hints of red and blue.
	www.mossacres.com /product_fern_moss2.asp (1205 words)

	Andy's northern Ontario wildflower page about ferns.
		Ostrich fern fiddleheads”; are the tightly coiled new shoots.
		The rhizomes of the Bracken fern are harvested to use their long fibres and as food.
		Ostrich fern with dark-coloured fruiting structures at base, growing in a wet hardwood forest.
	www.ontariowildflower.com /fern.htm (994 words)

	Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Fern Fiddleheads—Spring Vegetables of the Northeast
		Fiddleheads are the tightly coiled young fronds, or croziers, of ferns.
		The ostrich fern grows worldwide in the north temperate zone, favoring lightly shaded woodlands and moist, alluvial soils.
		In North America, ostrich fern fiddleheads emerge around mid-May and for a period of three weeks are ripe for the picking.
	www.bbg.org /gar2/topics/kitchen/2000sp_fern.html (614 words)

	Elroy Gregory - a quiet Maine Yankee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The croziers of the ostrich fern are dark green with a dark brown husk and a pronounced groove that runs up the entire stem to the tip, and are usually about two inches long and about an inch or so in diameter.
		The fern spores are transported by winds and water, and it is common to see them growing along the flood plains of rivers.
		Ostrich ferns often grow with other ferns, such as woods ferns and bracken ferns, but once you see the dark-green croziers of the ostrich ferns next to their pale green and fuzzy cousins it is easy to keep them separate.
	www.townofsebago.org /articles/fiddleheads.html (1016 words)

	RecipeSource: Fern Tips Vinaigrette
		The author wrote: "Fiddleheads, the coiled tips of young fern fronds, are a springtime delicacy especially prized by New Englanders and wild foods enthusiasts.
		Their season lasts only two weeks or so in May. Three kinds of the curled crosiers are gathered: those of the ostrich fern, the cinnamon fern, and the common bracken fern.
		So abundant are the ostrich ferns in the lush natural ferneries of the Winooski valley near Waterbury, Vermont, that quantities of the fiddleheads are harvested, packed in snow, and transported to Maine where they are canned for sale in specialty food stores.
	www.recipesource.com /fgv/salads/fern-tips-vinaigrette1.html (400 words)

	Part 1-Ferns for the Landscape - Landscaping
		Ferns are among the most versatile foliage plants.
		The richly textured foliage of ferns is an asset to any garden—whether it be in sun or shade.
		Combine ones with different textures and sizes, such as the feathery maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum), the towering ostrich fern, and the leathery Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides).
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art24622.asp (815 words)

	Hardy Palm Trees and Ferns around DC: Ferns
		The majority of these evergreen and perennial fern species are ones that I have personally found and some are ones that other aficionados have found or collected.
		Most are not as big as the perennial ferns of the area, don't need as much water, and prefer acidic soil and/or limestone.
		This is small blue-green fern that lives on old stone walls in the sun.
	members.aol.com /palmferndc/ferns (418 words)

	Fiddleheads
		Although consumption of these, and of the royal fern (Osmunda regalis), is an old practice in the Far East, experts are now advising against it as there is considerable evidence that they cause cancer of the stomach and esophagus, and eating only the young osterich fern is advised.
		Although several ferns are suspected of causing cancer, there may also be some that are downright poisonous as farm animals are known to avoid them.
		However, fern leaves, and hay contaminated with the fern, are known to be poisonous to livestock when eaten in large quantities.
	www.innvista.com /health/foods/vegetables/fiddle.htm (778 words)

	The Fern Lover's Companion
		Ferns are also reproduced by spores, a process mysterious and marvellous as a fairy tale.
		Ferns with much divided leaves and short, marginal sori borne at the ends of free-forking veins, on the under side of the reflexed and altered portion of the pinnules, which serves as an indusium.
		It may be readily distinguished from the New York fern by its broad base, instead of tapering to very small pinnæ; by its long stalk, lifting the blade up into the sunlight, and by the revolute margins of the fertile fronds, which have suggested for it the name of "snuff-box" fern.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/1/3/6/11365/11365-h/11365-h.htm (12178 words)

	Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part II
		Hay-scented fern is native to eastern North America and is rated hardy to USDA zone 3.
		This is one of the ferns that lives in our woods and just invited itself into my borders.
		It is one of the few ferns I know that does very well in sun, provided the soil doesn’t get too dry.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/222/2645 (678 words)

	Ostrich Fern - LoveToKnow Garden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ostrich Fern (Struthiopteris) - Tall, handsome, and vigorous hardy ferns with fronds of two kinds, fertile and sterile, the former being always grouped in the centre of the plant, and the latter forming a cordon round them.
		The former is one of the best hardy Ferns, with fronds nearly 3 feet long, and well suited for shady slopes, and the margins of streams and pieces of water; it will thrive either in sun or shade.
		Both kinds will grace the garden, and should not be confined to the fernery, and for long have had a cool corner in my garden.
	garden.lovetoknow.com /wiki/Ostrich_Fern (189 words)

	PlantFiles: Detailed information on Ostrich Fern, Garden Fern, Shuttlecock Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)
		I have added over a dozen of these fern to my shade garden, which were given to me by a neighbor here in zone 5.
		While the theoreticla appeal of these is their height, in my setting (clay/loam soil in heavy deciduous shade), the lady ferns consistently outpreform the ostrich ferns in the same bed, and are roughly twice the height.
		This fern can be invasive- it spreads like crazy for me- so only plant it in an area where it can be easily contained or where it has room to ramble.
	davesgarden.com /pf/go/159 (1161 words)

	Ostrich-Feather Fern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ostrich ferns have large, dark green fronds with a vase shaped growth.
		How to Grow: Ostrich ferns are native to marshy areas, little islands, and deltas of shallow streams and creeks.
		Landscape uses: Ostrich ferns make excellent background plants in the shade garden.
	www.greenwoodnursery.com /page.cfm/331 (240 words)

	Matteuccia struthiopteris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ostrich fern is a clump-forming, upright to arching, rhizomatous, deciduous fern which typically grows 2-3' tall in cultivation, but may reach 6' tall in moist, cool climates in the wild.
		The showy parts of this fern are the finely dissected, medium green, vegetative (sterile) fronds which, as the common name suggests, exhibit the feathery appearance of long ostrich plumes.
		The vegetative fronds emerge at the narrow base of the clumps in spring as the familiar "fiddleheads" from where they unfurl to a maximum length of 4'.
	www.mobot.org /gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=E180 (246 words)

	Berkshire Taconic :: Diversity of life
		Also known as the garden or hardy fern, this is one of the largest North American ferns, with fronds that grow as high as five feet and as wide as one foot.
		Like other ferns, the ostrich fern creates spores in small packets on the undersides of its fronds.
		This fern also reproduces asexually* by sending up new fronds from its roots.
	www.lastgreatplaces.org /berkshire/diversity/spc046.html (183 words)

	Fiddlehead (Ostrich Fern) Toxicity
		Fiddleheads are truly a part of our natural and culinary heritage, having been a regular component of the diet of New Brunswickers since at least the late 1700s and an important spring vegetable for aboriginal people in eastern North America for considerably longer.
		bracken fern, has been linked with certain types of cancer, persons who gather fiddleheads should be certain that they are harvesting the correct species.
		On a final note, we must take care that, in our zealous harvesting adventures, we refrain from taking more that a few fiddleheads from each plant so that our bountiful natural resource will be sustainable.
	www.elements.nb.ca /theme/ethnobotany/perils/jim.htm (764 words)

	Ostrich Fern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This native fern, shown here just unfurling in spring, is great for providing structure and texture to a shade garden.
		Ostrich ferns form spores on a clump of stout, fertile fronds in the center of the plant that can be left for winter interest.
		They go dormant in late summer so don't place them where their absence would be too obvious at that time.
	www.mailbag.com /users/mnofsing/matteuccia.html (125 words)

	BRACKEN FERN AND OTHER CARCINOGENIC PLANTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ostrich Fern is the only Nova Scotian species which is edible, NOT carcinogenic, and therefore the only one of which you can really regard as frondly.
		Commercially grown and harvested fiddleheads are all OSTRICH FERN and therefore safe, but fanciers of wild fiddleheads should exercise great caution so as to avoid gathering dangerous species.
		Acute poisoning from these ferns is unlikely; their effect is cumulative, and eventually produces a variety of internal cancers.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /poison/bracken.htm (469 words)

	Matteuccia struthiopteris, Ostrich Fern, Fiddlehead Fern, Garden Fern, Hardy Fern, Fougere-a-l'autruche, Strutbraken, ...
		As with Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis), forms intermediate between sterile fronds and fertile fronds are sometimes found.
		Distinguished from other large ferns by the distinctive fertile frond, when present.
		In the absence of the spore-bearing structure, the twice-cut sterile fronds with white hairs on the stems mark this species.
	www.rook.org /earl/bwca/nature/ferns/matteuccia.html (503 words)

	Ostrich fern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Very hardy, tall, upright fern with long lacy fronds.
		Name refers to the sterile fronds which are shaped like the tail feathers of an ostrich.
		Matteuccia / Ostrich fern : Matteuccia struthiopteris / Ostrich fern
	www.horticlick.com /sc/matteuccia1.html (35 words)

	ostrich fern - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "ostrich fern" is defined.
		ostrich fern : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		noun: tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
	www.onelook.com /?w=ostrich+fern&ls=a (116 words)

	EUROPEAN OSTRICH FERN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A beautiful vase of fronds suggest verdant ostrich feathers.
		Excellent fern for woodland gardens and damp areas such as edging a pond.
		Keep surface of soil moist, but not soggy.
	www.monrovia.com /PlantInf.nsf/269905a1fb059eb48825683c0080938a/356ceaa29735be058825684d007136f3!OpenDocument (166 words)

	Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Ostrich fern poisoning - New York and Western Canada, 1994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Ostrich fern poisoning - New York and Western Canada, 1994
		During May 25-28, NYSDOH conducted a telephone survey of persons who had eaten at the restaurant on days fiddlehead ferns were served (May 6,7, and 18).
		Of the 21 persons in these groups, illness occurred among 13 (87%) of 15 persons who ate ferns but in no persons who did not eat ferns (RR=undefined; p<0.01).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0906/is_n37_v43/ai_15749591 (1462 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)