Diplazium esculentum

This plant is a large perennial fern with ascending rhizome of about 50 cm high and covered with short rufous scales of about 1 mm long. The plant is bipinnate with long brownish petioles, and the petiole base is black and covered with short scales. The frond can reach 1.5  m in length, and the pinnae is about 8 cm long and 2 cm wide.[5]

The young fronds are stir-fried and used in salads.[6][7]

It is known as pakô ("wing") in the Philippines,[6] pucuk paku and paku tanjung in Malaysia, sayur paku or pakis in Indonesia, dhekia (ঢেকীয়া) in Assam "Dhenki Shaak (ঢেঁকি শাক) in Bengali ", paloi saag (পালই শাগ) Sylheti, ningro in Nepali,dingkia in Boro and linguda in northern India, referring to the curled fronds. In Thailand it is known as phak koot (Thai: ผักกูด). They may have mild amounts of fern toxins but no major toxic effects are recorded.[8]

It is known as pohole or hō'i'o in Hawaiian cuisine. The ferns grow in wet areas of shady valleys.[9][10] The fern species Diplazium esculentum is believed to have been introduced and naturalized in Hawaii and was first reported collected in 1910.[10] The fern also has medicinal uses.[11]

The extract also had alpha-glucosidase inhibitory activity.[12]

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  Yam phak khut, a Thai salad of fern leaves and pork
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  Ensaladang pako (fern salad) in Manila
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  Habitat

• Fiddlehead fern
• Sphenomeris chinensis