Polypody (Polypodium vulgare)

Family: Polypodiaceae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Form: Irregular or sprawling, Rounded, Upright or erect.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Roots/Tubers

Harvest Seasons: Fall, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

sweet, it contains sugars, tannin and oils. — Very sweet, it contains sugars, tannin and oils.; It is used as a liquorice adulterant.; The root has a unique, rather unpleasant odour and a sweet (cloying) flavour at first though it quickly becomes nauseating.; The root contains 15.5% saccharose and 4.2% glucose.

Habitat & North American Range

Rocks, walls and trees, as well as on the ground, in a variety of habitats but especially in humid shady conditions. (Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6)