: the edible, starchy rhizome of a bracken fern (Pteridium esculentum)
Over time, with a growing population, the most important native food plant for the Maori was the root of the aruhe, a bracken fern (Pteridium esculentum).—Simon D. Pollard, Natural History, May 2011
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