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Courtesy amazoninfocentre.weebly.com: Fiddleheads, an early spring delicacy throughout their range, are the young coiled fronds of the ostrich fern Matteuccia struthiopteris. Ostrich fern fiddleheads, which are about an inch in diameter, can be identified by the brown papery scale-like covering on the uncoiled fern, as well as the smooth fern stem, and the deep U-shaped groove on the inside of |
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