Fiddlehead
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Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds from a fledgling fern,[1] harvested for use as a vegetable.
Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond (circinate vernation). As fiddleheads are harvested early in the season, before the frond has opened and reached its full height, they are cut fairly close to the ground.[2]
Fiddleheads from brackens contain a compound associated with bracken toxicity, and thiaminase.[3]
The fiddlehead resembles the curled ornamentation (called a scroll) on the end of a stringed instrument, such as a fiddle. It is also called a crozier, after the curved staff used by bishops, which has its origins in the shepherd's crook.