Ostrich fern

Matteuccia struthiopteris

  • Ostrich fern
  • Ostrich fern
  • Ostrich fern
  • Ostrich fern
  • Flower name
    Ostrich fern
  • Scientific name
    Matteuccia struthiopteris
  • Aliasクサソテツ, 屈, コゴミ, Ostrich fern
  • Place of originTemperate regions of the northern hemisphere
  • Place of floweringField, Low mountains
  • Flowering season

What is Ostrich fern

Ostrich fern(scientific name: Matteuccia struthiopteris) is a deciduous perennial fern of the family onocleaceae of the genus mteuccia. The ostrich fern resembles a bracken or a osmund, and the upper part is in the coiled shape.
The shoots of the ostrich fern is called pteretis (buckling) and edible mountain grass. Season is May-June is Peony species are cultivated, so can get even in the winter. Boiling to cook a light salad or boiled, Tempura, eat. Taste is not habit.

Common name: Ostrich fern, Scientific name:Matteuccia struthiopteris,
Another name: shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, onoclea struthiopteris, pteretis struthiopteris
Habitat: all over Japan, environment: low mountain in damp places, living type: perennial live fern, leaf: pinnately compound leaves, shape: bracken fern and spring to similar upper spiral, season: 5-6 months (Peony species are grown. ), How to Cook: lightly boiled, Tempura and salad taste: has a particularly strong taste not, use: grass.


  • Order
    Polypodiales
  • Family
    Onocleaceae
  • Genus
    Matteuccia
  • Species
    M. struthiopteris
  • Type of flower
  • Array of flower
  • Petal shape
  • Leaf type
    Feather shape
  • Edge of the leaf
  • Life typeDeciduous perennial fern.
  • Flower colorsBrown
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height100.0 ~ 100.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower ~ cm

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