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Diplazium esculentum, the vegetable fern, is an edible fern found throughout Asia and Oceania. It is probably one of the most commonly consumed ferns.
The genus Diplazium is in the family Athyriaceae, in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida.
They may have mild amounts of fern toxins but no major toxic effects are recorded.
It is known as pakô ("wing") in the Philippines, pucuk paku and paku tanjung in Malaysia, sayur paku or pakis in Indonesia, phak koot () in Thailand, rau dớn in Vietnam, dhekia () in Assamese, Dhenki Shaak () in Bengali language, paloi saag () in Eastern Bengali, ningro in Nepali language, dingkia in Boro and linguda in northern India, referring to the fiddlehead.
It is known as pohole or hō'i'o in Hawaiian cuisine.
The ferns grow in wet areas of shady valleys.N_ Kua'_ina: Living Hawaiian Culture by Davianna McGrego pages 110, 133[2] Hawai_i's Ferns and Fern Allies by Daniel Dooley Palmer page 125 The fern species Diplazium esculentum is believed to have been introduced and naturalized in Hawaii and was first reported collected in 1910. The fern also has medicinal uses. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (5 Volume Set) by Umberto Quattrocchi CRC Press, May 3, 2012 – Science – 3960 pages page 1439
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Description
This plant is a large perennial fern with an ascending rhizome of about 50cm high and covered with short rufous scales of about 1mm long. The plant is bipinnate with long brownish petioles, and the petiole base is black and covered with short scales. The frond can reach 1.5m in length, and the pinnae is about 8cm long and 2cm wide.
Uses
The young fronds are stir-fried and used in salads. Ethnobotanical Leaflets
Pharmacological effects
The extract also had alpha-glucosidase inhibitory activity.Chai TT, Yeoh LY, Mohd Ismail NI, Ong HC, Abd Manan F, Wong FC (2015) Evaluation of glucosidase inhibitory and cytotoxic potential of five selected edible and medicinal ferns . Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research 14 (3): 449-454.
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