Colorado Wild Plants and Fungi
by DaySounds © 2013-15



Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)

Toxic. Some people eat the green fiddleheads after soaking them in salty water for
1h or more; then, boiling them for about 10 minutes. However, the possibilities to
develop cancer or immune deficiency sicknesses, as a consequence, are not worth it.

It can be used to make soap and as an insect repellent.
                                     

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