New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds, the early uncurling fronds are edible
English: cinnamon fern, fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea
fiddleheadEnglish
fiddlehead, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris, Osmunda cinnamonea, Pteretis struthiopteris
Noun
Tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
English: ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris