How to salt bracken fern: salting recipes, recipes from salted bracken fern

1. Salted fern should be kept in water for 10-12 hours. Remove from the package, rinse in cool water, put the fern in a bowl and cover with cold water. 2... Cut the stems into strips 2.3 cm long. Peel and chop onions and carrots (chop or coarsely grate).

3. We send onions and carrots to a preheated frying pan. Saute (fry until soft) for 1-2 minutes. Then add the fern, stir and fry over medium heat for about 10 minutes. Excess moisture evaporate, the fern will slightly change color. Do not overdry or overcook, it will not turn out tasty. Fern fried with vegetables should be juicy. 1-2 minutes before turning off the heat, add finely chopped garlic.

How to salt bracken fern at home

Bracken is an edible fern species that grows in the European part of Russia. The collection of plants begins in May with the arrival of heat. Young fern shoots are eaten. They are called rakhis. A distinctive feature of the shoots is their twisted shape, resembling snails in appearance. Due to her, rachis dishes have a very appetizing look.

The taste of salted bracken resembles a cross between mushrooms and asparagus. It is used for making soups, salads and main courses. In addition to interesting taste properties, dishes made from salted bracken fern are distinguished by their useful composition. The main advantage of the product is its high iodine content.

The plant is harvested in the first half of May. But the product can be purchased prepared. It is sold in shops selling Korean delicacies. When self-collecting a plant, you should be guided by the following principles:

the optimal shoot length is 20-30 cm;
when pressed, the petioles should emit a crunch;
at the top of the shoot there is a curl resembling a snail;
when cutting a plant, it is necessary to leave a stump of 5 cm;
after harvesting, the shoots should be processed within 10 hours;
if during long-term storage the rachis began to darken, it is prohibited to eat them.

Before cooking, the shoots must be prepared. Initially, the product is washed thoroughly. The next step is to soak it in salted water for a day. The water needs to be changed periodically. The next day, the fern is boiled for 3 minutes. After that, you can heat the product.

Comment! Due to its low calorie content, bracken can be used for dietary meals.

Fern, description, types, photos, growing conditions, care

This plant blooms only once a year - on a magical night on Ivan Kupala.

Among the openwork feathery leaves, as if by a wave of a magic wand, a bud appears, gradually it flares up like a coal in a fire, and suddenly, for just a moment, blooms with a scarlet fire.

Description

The lucky man who saw this should pluck it as quickly as possible, hide it in his bosom and run away from the forest without looking back, not allowing any evil spirits to lead him astray and take away the magic flower. If luck smiles, then this flower will give its owner wonderful abilities: the ability to understand the language of animals and birds, the gift of foresight and the ability to find treasures.

You surely guessed what this is about
ferns - the oldest group of spore plants that reigned on Earth back in the era of the dinosaurs.
Since ancient times, these plants have enjoyed the fame of not only mysterious, but also medicinal herbs among different peoples. One of the features of many ferns - poisonous properties, which made it possible to use them as an anthelmintic agent. More often than the prophetic for these purposes, the male shield was used, however, many other species have the same qualities, for example, the common bracken.

Danger of poisoning ferns does not stop many lovers to feast on these plants. Young, spirally twisted leaves of some ferns, called vayas, are prepared in a special way, after boiling them in salt water. As a result, we get real gourmet dishes that taste like mushrooms, which are especially fond of serving in the countries of the Far East.

In folk medicine, ferns are used as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antiseptic; Tibetan healers prescribe drugs from them for metabolic disorders.

Ferns - perennial rhizome plants that reproduce by spores. Fronts in most species are openwork, pinnately complex, sitting on strong petioles - rachis, which sometimes resemble twigs.

The sizes of ferns vary widely: from the smallest, a few centimeters, living in crevices of rocks and even in masonry, to many meters tree-like, growing in the tropics.

Views

Ferns can be found on all continents of the planet, with the exception of, of course, Antarctica. According to various sources, there are from 6 to 10 thousand species of these plants. In the forests of Russia in the temperate zone, only a few dozen different ferns are found, however, in our conditions, a sufficient number of decorative species and varieties can be grown.

The best known, perhaps, are the male dwarf and the female cochinate - the usual inhabitants of our forests. These are perennials with non-wintering leaves, reaching sizes of 1 - 1.2 m, often used in natural-style gardens. There are numerous varieties of these ferns with branched and curled leaves or reduced size.

Among the ornamental species, one cannot fail to mention the common ostrich, which forms high bright green leaf funnels, the bristle-bearing mnogoryadnik, the spear-shaped m. And the Brown m. With pointed hard fronds, which often persist after winter.

Rounded leaves of the Far Eastern maidenhair stop-shaped on thin black petioles, as if woven into light lace. A centipede leaflet with 4 whole leaves of a light green color somewhat resembles a lungwort. Increasingly, in decorative plantings such spectacular ferns as sensitive and large osmunda royal are used.

Growing conditions

When choosing places on the site for growing ferns, it should be borne in mind that most of them prefer shady areas with loose acidified soils containing a lot of organic matter. Few species, such as leaflets or centipedes, thrive on neutral soils. Osmunda, telipteris, onoclei and ostriches tolerate waterlogged substrates well.

On a personal plot ferns planted in shady flower beds, under trees and shrubs, forming groups of different species. Since many of them are moisture-loving, they are great for decorating ponds, streams, ornamental swamps.

With the help of the ostrich and bracken, as well as perennials of the overgrowth type, carpet plantings can be created that completely cover the soil under the canopy of trees. Some species, especially rocky ones, tolerate sunlight well; they are planted in rockeries and rocky gardens.

Andrey Lysikov,

candidate of biological sciences

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Traditional recipe for salting bracken fern

Fresh rachis can be used in soups, salads and meat dishes. But in order to stock up on a product for future use, you need to pickle or salt it. The traditional recipe involves the use of the following ingredients:

500 g of salt;
1 kg fern.

Recipe:

The bracken is thoroughly washed under running water.
A layer of salt is placed on the bottom of a deep container. Lay out a layer of shoots on top. They need to be salted until the ingredients run out. The top layer should be salt.
Above is placed oppression weighing at least 1 kg.
The product is left for 2 weeks in a cold place.
After a specified time, the resulting liquid is drained from the container.
The plant is laid out in jars and poured with a saline solution with the addition of ascorbic acid.
Banks are rolled up in the usual way.

Important! The salted plant must be soaked before cooking.

How to freeze Eagle for the winter?

Freezing food is now very popular. After all, it takes a little time, and also allows you to save a lot of vitamins inside vegetables. Fern is no exception here and fully takes its place on the shelf of the freezer.

So, to begin with, boil it in boiling salted water and boil it for five minutes without reducing the heat. Then we drain the broth, cool the stems.

Preparing bags for freezing. We put on boiled shoots, release more air and tie the ends.

We send it to the freezer until winter. That's the whole simple process.

Quick salting of freshly cut bracken fern

Cooking salted bracken fern is often carried out according to a faster recipe. It takes only a week to salt the product. But the duration of storage of the finished product does not change from this. The ratio of the components is as follows:

250 g salt;
1 kg fern.

Cooking process:

Each pod is thoroughly rinsed with clean water.
In a deep container, the plant is mixed with coarse salt.
Top the product with a wooden plank or plate.
To extract juice, oppression is placed in the container, which can be a small weight.
After 7 days, the resulting juice is poured off.
Shoots are tamped in jars and canned.

Appearance

The lichen is considered a very ancient shrub, more than 400 million years old. The common bracken plant grew back in the days of the dinosaurs. An old legend says that if some lucky man finds a fern flower, he will be immensely rich and lucky. After all, lichen blooms in an instant. The difference between bracken and other fern varieties is in solitary growth. All other species grow from the nest. The collection takes place in May, when it is still very small. Novice gardeners, before planting bracken on the site, should know what a lichen looks like. After all, there are many subspecies of it: ostrich, ostrich, centipede, etc.

The trunk is absolutely smooth, without scales. The root system is so strong that it can withstand fires and later sprout again. Thanks to this feature, the bracken has been growing in this place for hundreds of years. The root is creeping, buds are formed on it, from which individual shoots are formed. The stepchildren are at a distance of 10-20 cm from each other and at first have a snail-shaped head, later it blooms into wide leaves.

The thrice-plumose crown has a specific sweetish odor that attracts ants. The foliage is light green in color, 70 cm high.

Salt bracken fern with spices

The taste of bracken fern in combination with spices is able to sparkle with new shades. Supplements can be selected at your discretion. They are in perfect harmony with shoots:

coriander;
anise;
oregano;
caraway;
rosemary;
nutmeg.

Before you salt the product, you need to prepare the ingredients:

1 kg of salt;
500 g of spices;
2.5 kg of shoots.

Recipe:

The fern is sorted out, getting rid of sluggish and spoiled shoots.
The plant is laid out on the bottom of an enamel pan, covered with salt and spices.
Oppression is placed on top.
After 3 weeks, the pulp is separated from the juice and placed in sterilized glass jars.
The remaining spices and saline are added to the shoots, after which the jars are twisted.

Attention! It is not recommended to salt the fern with fine iodized salt.

A video on how to collect a fern. Its description, properties and application

And in conclusion, let me present you with a video that tells a lot about the eagle By looking at it, you can find out how and when to collect it, how to harvest it and how to use it on the farm.

Be sure to watch the movie, it is very informative and educational. You will learn a lot of interesting and useful things.

Dear friends, prepare a bracken, prepare various tasty and healthy dishes from it and eat it to your health.

All the best to you, and we will always be healthy! And useful plants will help us with this!

Author of the publication

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How to cook salted bracken fern in the taiga

The taiga fern is a wonderful dish that is often used instead of a hot one. It is very satisfying and healthy. Salt the dish during cooking should be extremely careful.

Components:

400 g bracken fern;
400 g chicken breast;
one onion;
vegetable oil;
200 g sour cream;
pepper and salt to taste.

Cooking process:

The soaked fern is boiled for 7 minutes and then cut into small pieces.
Cut the chicken breast into cubes.
The onions are fried in a hot skillet until golden brown.
Put chicken in a frying pan, salt and fry until tender.
The next step is to add sour cream and fern to the chicken.
After 3-4 minutes, the dish is removed from the heat.

Korean spicy appetizer

Bracken can also be used to prepare a spicy snack, to be put on a festive table or to treat friends in a narrow circle.

Men especially treat such a snack. It turns out to be spicy, which many love, and therefore they always eat it with pleasure.

For this we need:

fern - 300 gr
onion - 1 piece
carrots - 1 pc
sesame seeds - 2 tbsp. spoons
soy sauce - 4 tablespoons spoons
olive oil - 3 tbsp spoons
sesame oil - 1 tbsp the spoon
hot chili pepper - 1 tbsp. spoon (or to taste)
any seasonings - 1 - 2 tbsp. spoons

Preparation:

1. Onions need to be peeled and cut into thin, neat half rings. Cut carrots into thin strips or grate for Korean carrots.

2. Chop the fern into pieces about 3 - 4 cm long. All the chopped ingredients should be about the same length.

3. Simmer onions and carrots in olive oil until soft.

4. Send sesame seeds there and pour sesame oil. It gives an oriental flavor to the dish. Although, if you do not find it, then nothing terrible will happen, the salad will turn out to be tasty and aromatic as it is.

Vegetables should be stewed over medium heat, so that they are not fried, but more languid.

5. Next, send the bracken to the pan. Add red pepper, turmeric, and any other oriental seasonings that can add flavor and aroma to the dish. Stir well so that the spices are evenly dispersed throughout all the ingredients, and add soy sauce to the cooking dish. It goes well with the main ingredient.

The fern is nourished with it, and it becomes just incredibly tasty!

6. Our easy-to-prepare spicy salad is ready! It is perfect as an addition to the main courses, and as an independent dish.

Bon Appetit!

Storage rules

Fresh bracken is allowed to be stored no longer than a day. Therefore, it is recommended to salt it as quickly as possible, until the product has lost its beneficial properties and has not become woody. The dried plant is usable for several years if stored in linen bags.The shelf life of a salty product is 2-3 years.

You can store it at any temperature. But it is advisable to remove the cans in a place protected from sunlight.

A warning! A fresh plant contains toxic substances that are hazardous to health. Therefore, it can only be consumed in processed form.

Useful properties and contraindications

As most likely everyone has already noticed, the bracken fern is very useful. This applies to the entire plant as a whole. So, greens are rich in a whole complex of vitamins, including tocopherol and riboflavin, as well as a wide range of vitamins B, C and E. The stems also contain the pigment carotene and niacin.

The roots are rich in nitrogen-containing organic compounds - alkaloids, as well as nitrogen-free organic saponins. They also contain hydrocyanic and tannic acid and many useful oils and plant pigments of flavonoids.

In general, a whole article can be written on the content of nutrients and components in a plant. But today this is not our task. Therefore, I will only say that among the useful minerals contained in bracken are phosphorus, potassium and calcium, iodine, magnesium and many others.

That is, this plant is saturated with a maximum of useful trace elements, minerals, vitamins and useful compounds. And therefore, it must be collected in the spring and eaten.

If you take it as a rule and eat it regularly, you may be surprised to find that your immunity has increased, you are less likely to get sick, and in general, you feel a surge of energy and wake up better in the morning.

In addition, the inclusion of a plant in the diet has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system, improves blood composition. The beneficial substances found in this forest gift increase the functioning of the thyroid gland and the entire endocrine system. And the constant use of this product will normalize the work of the gastrointestinal tract, strengthen bone tissue.

In addition, it removes radiation and toxic substances from the body, so it is often used for treatment in contaminated areas.

The special substances contained in greens slow down the aging of the body, preserve the nervous system and increase the efficiency of the whole body.

But in any barrel of honey there is a fly in the ointment. Bracken is not recommended for pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. And also it is contraindicated for children and people with the so-called individual intolerance to the product.

If you have any chronic diseases, then before using fern dishes, be sure to consult your doctor.

It should be remembered that this forest plant is inherently poisonous. Therefore, it is not recommended to use it raw, as well as in large quantities. Any, even the most useful medicine, turns into poison in case of an overdose. Everything is good in moderation - do not forget about it.

And by and large, of course, we are glad to accept all forest gifts with gratitude. Whether it is mushrooms, berries or such useful plants as bracken, we are happy to collect, eat and harvest for future use.

What can be cooked from salted bracken fern

There are many recipes for cooking salted bracken fern. Delicacy dishes are perfect both for decorating a festive table and for everyday use. The shoots are pre-soaked in cold water for 24 hours. This is necessary to isolate the salt.

Bracken salad with egg

Ingredients:

3 boiled eggs;
40 g prepared fern;
one pickled cucumber;
one onion;
100 g mayonnaise;
3 cloves of garlic.

Cooking process:

Finely chopped bracken and onion, then stew in a skillet for 5 minutes.
While the shoots are cooling, cut the cucumber and boiled eggs.
The components are mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise.
Put the salad on a plate using a round shape. If desired, the dish is decorated with herbs.

Pork fern

Ingredients:

one fennel;
30 ml of soy sauce;
600 g fern;
one chili pepper;
vegetable oil - for frying;
300 g of pork.

Recipe:

Pieces of meat are fried on both sides in hot oil.
Fennel and pepper are chopped and fried in a separate skillet.
The bracken is added to the resulting mixture without crushing it.
At the end of cooking, add meat and soy sauce to the pan.
When serving, the dish can be garnished with black sesame seeds.

Chicken salad

Salted bracken fern salad with chicken is served warm. It can be used as a stand-alone dish or in combination with any side dish. To prepare the salad you will need:

3 onions;
300 g chicken fillet;
300 g shoots;
seasonings to taste.

Cooking algorithm:

The onion and chicken are cut into cubes and sent to a frying pan with hot oil. During the frying process, add salt and pepper.
At the end of cooking the meat, add the pre-soaked plant and any seasonings.
After 3 minutes, the finished dish is removed from the stove.

Reproduction

The unpretentious plant reproduces in several ways. It is possible to determine which of them is the simplest after a detailed consideration of each option.

Reproduction by spores

In the wild, Eaglet reproduces by spores, since it is a sexless plant.

In the conditions of home breeding, in the fall, a leaf is cut from a plant, cut into it and put to dry in a paper envelope.

At the end of January, spores, which are fine powder, are poured into prepared boxes with soil mixture, irrigated with a spray bottle and covered with thick glass.

After 2 months, green moss appears on the surface of the soil - this is the basis for future seedlings. During this period, the glass is removed to provide oxygen access.

When individual elements grow together and increase in size, they can be transplanted into separate pots of small diameter. By spring, the seedlings are ready and can be planted in a different soil. This is a rather difficult method and is rarely used, preferring an easier alternative.

Reproduction by dividing the bush

The easiest way to get a lot of planting material is to divide the bush into separate parts. The developed and strong root system of the plant allows you to do this without harming the main fern and to get many children ready for planting.

The procedure is carried out in early spring, after the end of the frost, as soon as the thermometer's thermometer shows stably above 0.

The bracken fern does not reproduce by tubers and shoots.

Basic living conditions

lighting - the best place for planting bracken will be a shaded area in the garden. Moreover, the less sun the plant receives, the more saturated green color its foliage will acquire, and vice versa - in sunny areas the leaves will brighten and become transparent
soil - the main condition for it is lightness and looseness - loams are poorly suited to ferns. It can be moderately fertile soil, sandy loam, but the soil should definitely be dug up before planting, and it would also be nice to add sand, gravel or brick chips to it, and the fern will be very grateful to you for the lime added to the soil - this has a beneficial effect on its growth
temperature - usual for summer - bracken feels great both at 10 and 27 degrees of heat, and it is also a frost-resistant plant, therefore it does not require any shelter for the winter, even with rather severe winters - its frond crumbles, and the rhizome is calm hibernates at depth

Preparing for landing

If you decide to grow a fern on your site, then it is best to purchase a young plant in a trusted store or nursery. When buying, conduct a thorough inspection of the plant - the leaves should be elastic, without traces of damage and disease. The same goes for the root system.

After bringing the plant home, leave it in a shaded room for a day.After that, transplant into a pot with prepared soil. A drainage layer is necessarily laid out on its bottom, and the substrate itself should consist of most of the sand and less of the earth. A little compost is laid out in the planting hole and the fern is carefully placed, straightening the roots. After that, the plant is watered and fertilized with a growth stimulant that facilitates the adaptation process.

Medicinal properties

Fern properties

This plant has many possibilities. It works:

Sedatively.
Antipyretic.
Anti-inflammatory.
Antimicrobial.
Choleretic.
Diuretic.
Wound healing.
Antispasmodic.
Hemostatic.
Antihelminthic.

Application

The medicinal properties of the fern became known in the days of Pliny and Dioscorides. Avicenna described several possible uses for this plant.

In Switzerland, in the Middle Ages, the pharmacist and physician Nuffer compiled an antihelminthic recipe based on the fern. It was a secret lineup that became known only after the death of Nuffer.

No wonder the bracken is so popular. It stimulates metabolism, relieves stress, relieves pain, fever, increases efficiency and much more.

If a person has problems with the intestines and spleen, then fern shoots will help, thanks to their amino acids and tannins. You can cure a cough with an infusion of shoots and remove worms.

The roots, when taken orally, relieve joint problems, diarrhea and rickets. Tincture can be used to treat externally skin diseases, old wounds, scrofula, ulcers and eczema.

You can use the leaves as an anti-rotting solution for storing fruits and vegetables.

Interestingly, the bracken fritter repels insects, which was successfully used by peasants in Western Europe. In France, this plant was prepared and used for skin rejuvenation. To this day, waterproof glue is being prepared from brass.

Common bracken composition

Catechins with anti-inflammatory and free radical neutralization. They noticeably stop age-related manifestations and remove toxins.
Flavonoids that regulate the nervous system, strengthen blood vessels, regulate blood pressure and heart rate.
Phytosterols, which regenerate the skin and support the female hormonal background.
Fatty oils that have a beneficial effect on skin regeneration, relieve inflammation, protect the body from harmful effects.
Bitterness to increase appetite, remove bile, strengthen immunity.
Carotene, capable of removing toxins, preventing the development of cancer cells, normalizing metabolic processes in the body, and forming bone tissue.
Riboflavin, which has a positive effect on the organs of vision and normalizes sleep.
Tocopherol to stimulate the hormone estrogen, to protect against ultraviolet radiation, to relieve swelling, to slow down aging.
Nicotinic acid, which provides the synthesis of hormones, has an analgesic effect, dilates blood vessels, improves blood flow, lowers cholesterol and lowers blood pressure.
Glycosides that act to regulate the normal functioning of the heart, have a calming effect, neutralize microbes.
Lignin, which fights salmonella and staphylococci, toxins and allergens.
Tanin. This substance removes toxins and harmful substances, increases brain activity, improves digestion, strengthens blood vessels.
Starch, which gives a person energy, stops the growth of tumor cells, and normalizes the intestines.
Alkaloids that can relieve pain, accelerate blood clotting, lower blood pressure.
Saponinov. They respond to the ha cough center and regulate metabolic processes in the body. They remove foci of inflammation.
Yoda.
Potassium.
Manganese.
Copper.
Sodium.
Calcium and some other substances that have a beneficial effect on humans.

Contraindications for use

Without a doctor, it is dangerous to be treated with a bracken, since the plant is poisonous. Absolute contraindications for use are:

pregnancy;
childhood;
lactation period;
individual intolerance.

In case of poisoning with bracken, the following symptoms may appear:

- vomiting;
- convulsions;
- decrease in pressure;
- violation of cardiac activity;
- headache;
- digestive problems;
- disruption of the kidneys and liver;
- dizziness.

Overdose can be fatal.

Orlyak ordinary: photo, short description of the plant

This plant is a perennial herbaceous fern that belongs to the Hypolepis family. Orlyak ordinary, the photo of which is in this article, has the following distinctive features:

has a strong rhizome;
reaches a height of 90-100 cm;
leaves of a plant up to 150 cm wide, dark green, triangular in shape, located singly;
the edges of the leaves are curved.

Bracken fern grows mainly in forest areas. This plant does not form bushes at all.

Distribution and ecology [edit | edit code]

The bracken is widespread - it is found everywhere around the globe, except for the Arctic regions, steppes and deserts.

Habitats - light forests - both coniferous (common on sandy soil in pine forests) and deciduous (especially birch forests), forest edges, open elevated places, thickets of shrubs. Prefers light and poor soils, sometimes found on limestones.

Sometimes it forms continuous thickets over a large area, often dominates the grass cover. In natural habitats, bracken rarely becomes an aggressively spreading plant, but human activity contributes to its transformation into one of the most widespread ferns.

Deep-lying rhizomes and the ability for rapid vegetative reproduction allow the bracken to master felling and burnt-out areas, abandoned fields, plantations and pastures.

In some countries, hayfields are considered a difficult-to-eradicate weed that requires special control measures.

In the mountains it reaches the middle, less often the upper mountain belt [1].

Conservation status [edit | edit code]

Diseases and pests when caring for a bracken and methods of dealing with them

Despite the fact that most ferns are quite resistant plants, it happens that they are not exposed to diseases, but to pests. Due to the fact that the shoots of the bracken are distinguished by their juiciness and the release of a sweetish liquid, thrips, scale insects or whiteflies often settle on them:

Thrips
on the leaves are recognized as very small bugs (approximately 1–1.5 mm long), light yellow or dark brown in color. Symptoms of their appearance are spots of a yellow color of a necrotic nature on the leaf lobes, which eventually completely merge.
Shield
visible due to the fact that brownish tubercles appear on the underside of the leaf plates, the foliage turns yellow and flies around.
Whitefly
a whitish shade can cover the entire plant, on the reverse side the leaves are dotted with white dots.

Usually, when a pest appears, a sticky substance also begins to cover the bracken foliage - a honeydew, which is a product of the insect's vital activity. If measures are not taken, then this substance can provoke the appearance of a disease such as sooty fungus.

If it is not planned to collect shoots, then insecticidal preparations work well against pests, for example, Aktara, Aktellik or Fitoverm. But if you want to pamper yourself with salted young fern stems, then you should give up chemicals, preferring folk remedies, such as a solution based on soap or tobacco, onion husks or garlic gruel.

Read more about rare insects and possible problems with breeding asplenium

Taxonomy [edit | edit code]

Synonyms [edit | edit code]

According to The plant list

for 2013, the synonyms of the species include [4]:

Varieties and subspecies [edit | edit code]

As of 2013, according to The plant list

[4], four varieties are known:

Pteridium aquilinum var.feei (W.Schaffn.exFée) Maxon
Pteridium aquilinum var. lanuginosum (Bong.) Fernald
Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum (Desf.) Underw. ex A. Heller (≡ Pteridium latiusculum (Desf.) Hieron. ex R.E.Fr.) (China, Japan, Taiwan, northern Europe, almost everywhere in Canada and the United States, northern Mexico)
Pteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum (Clute) A. Heller

Pteridium aquilinum subsp. decompositum (Gaudich.) Lamoureux ex J.A. Thomson
Pteridium aquilinum subsp. pinetorum (C.N. Page & R.R. Mill) J.A. Thomson.

Raw material layout

Plucked rachises are tied into loose, not tight bundles, sorted by size and quality. Their optimum diameter is 8-10 cm. The bundle is aligned not along the length of the petiole, but along the tops, after which they are trimmed along the lower edge to the same length. Slightly above the base (4-5 cm) they are tied with an elastic band. The bunches harvested for salting should be as homogeneous as possible, it is not allowed to get hard overgrown or, on the contrary, underdeveloped shoots into them. During preparation, you should hold them in your hands as carefully as possible, without squeezing, since these will greatly spoil the quality of the future product.

If the same site or cultivated planting is used to collect rachis, it is important to walk on this site as little as possible outside the collection time, so as not to trample the embryos of future shoots, the underground formation of which takes more than one year.

Botanical features of the growth of shoots with a photo

As already mentioned, aerial shoots appear only in the fourth year after the beginning of the formation of renewal buds. This happens in early spring, at about the same time as the lilies of the valley. The bracken fronds are twisted in a spiral and, at an early stage of development, are covered with fine pubescence, which soon disappears. Further growth occurs mainly due to the petiole, and the leaf blades themselves are in a twisted state all this time. They will begin to unfold after the petiole has grown by about 50-70 cm. All this time it is very juicy and brittle, but as soon as its growth stops and frond formation begins, it gradually loses its juiciness. Developed three times feathery bracken leaves also become rigid, lamellar with age.

Different varieties of this fern can have different foliage colors. It is most often light green at a young age and darker at maturity. But there are varieties with a dark color, including brown, purple or striped in green tones. Coloring does not always depend on the variety, but may depend on the place of growth, lighting, etc.

Sometimes you can see that in one place shoots of different colors appear from the ground, clearly belonging to the same root system. This has nothing to do with the characteristics of the soil and does not affect their taste. After the leaves have fully opened, they will all be the same color.

Regardless of the type of bracken, its taste remains the same.

Care

Watering. The soil under the bracken should always be moistened, but at the same time, stagnation of water should not be allowed - this can cause rotting of the roots.
Humidity. Like all ferns, the bracken loves high humidity, so when planting it is worth considering its preferences and, if possible, placing it near a stream or pond.
Top dressing. If desired, in the spring, you can feed young plants with mineral complex fertilizers. In the future, this is an optional procedure.