Ostrich fern seems to be safe for most people.

I'd like to plant more cardinal flowers and some ostrich ferns.

The ostrich fern is a popular ornamental plant in gardens.

Do not take ostrich fern if: You are pregnant or breast-feeding.

There isn't enough information to know how ostrich fern works, although it might have some activity as a laxative.

Since ostrich ferns spread rapidly by underground runners, have patience.

The young shoots of ostrich fern, known as fiddleheads, are used to make medicine.

At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for ostrich fern.

Later on, ostrich ferns and other varieties wave over double impatiens.

By last year, the oaks cast sufficient shade for them to start planting some ostrich ferns.

I have only a few ostrich ferns, and it takes a lot of fiddleheads to make the meal worthwhile.

Ostrich fern fiddlehead scales rub off easily when you wash them.

Aspidistra and ostrich fern floated in the breeze of their passage.

And for the ostrich fern, he notes "Restrict planting to large areas where spreading can be controlled."

It prefers moist shade although the ostrich fern's beautiful foliage will flourish under a variety of conditions.

The appropriate dose of ostrich fern depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions.

Look for upright, dark green fiddleheads clothed in a few tan scales to make sure they really are ostrich ferns.

- the dog chews on ostrich ferns.

The fiddleheads of cinnamon and ostrich ferns.

Ostrich fern is a plant.

For human consumption, some botanists believe that only the ostrich fern - the variety commonly sold in markets - is unquestionably safe.

"We really couldn't stand the mess," said Ms. Stein, who is a sturdy woman but just a bit taller than an ostrich fern.

The shape of the fronds is elliptical (similar to that of Ostrich Fern).

The ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) grows fast, to about four feet, with graceful feathery fronds.

Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is not thought to cause cancer, although there is evidence it contains an as yet unidentified toxin.

When Peter curls up in pain, he's described as looking like a fiddlehead fern.

There is nothing worse than edible flowers or fiddlehead ferns.

On the other hand, flies don't eat my fruit trees down to the size of fiddlehead ferns.

The arms have knuckle grips that look like fiddlehead ferns.

At the side of the house, a fiddlehead fern in a pot greets visitors.

("Have you ever seen anybody sit down and eat a big bowl of fiddlehead ferns?"

Here the ironwork motif looks more like fiddlehead ferns.

"There is a specific cachet that only a fiddlehead fern can convey.

Fiddlehead ferns, ramps and sorrel are also hostage to nature's clock.

Later, fiddlehead ferns popped up at my heels, as did white trilliums and other wildflowers.

The pattern has swirling foliage that resembles fiddlehead ferns.

Ms. Drescher urged him to try the fiddlehead ferns.

Another boasts a thatch of coiled silver fiddlehead ferns.

Asparagus should be blanched in a bundle until barely tender; fiddlehead ferns require four to five minutes.

Fiddlehead ferns, looking furry and nascent, sprouted up from between the cracks in the steps.

Today at the Union Square Market, the maple syrup guy was selling fiddlehead ferns.

The most precious of the season's offerings, like fiddlehead ferns and shad roe, aren't even fully gestated.

The seared halibut comes with leeks, shiitake mushrooms and fiddlehead ferns.

Did I see fiddlehead ferns?

Next up, she says, are fiddlehead ferns, and then rhubarb, and then asparagus.

He began to photograph all manner of plants - fiddlehead ferns, leaves, branching twigs - in large close-ups or carefully arranged groups.

It had rolled down the slope of the tussock, leaving a trail of blood and matted fiddlehead ferns behind.

She also prepared salads of dandelion greens, side dishes with rhubarb flowers and soups from fiddlehead ferns.

On an upper terrace, banana, sugar cane and fiddlehead ferns grow in an area that includes other food plants imported by the Polynesians.

Potted fiddlehead ferns, sprouting corn plants, feathery horsetail palms strewn about.

Matteuccia struthiopteris (common names ostrich fern or shuttlecock fern) is a crown-forming, colony-forming fern, occurring in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in eastern and northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.

The ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) grows fast, to about four feet, with graceful feathery fronds.

Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is not thought to cause cancer, although there is evidence it contains an as yet unidentified toxin.

Matteuccia struthiopteris (N)

Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)

Ferns and many herbaceous flowering plants often form clonal colonies via horizontal underground stems termed rhizomes, e.g. ostrich fern Matteuccia struthiopteris and goldenrod.

Fiddlehead Fern, Fougère Autruche, Garden Fern, Hardy Fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Osmunda struthiopteris.