Is there any difference between monkey leg fern and bracken?

In modern life, people are increasingly fond of eating plants that were considered wild vegetables in the past, because according to modern nutritional research, most wild vegetables have very strong health-care effects, and are a better conditioning method for people who are used to eating big fish and meat. There are many kinds of wild vegetables, such as monkey leg vegetable and fern, which are very popular kinds. Is there any difference between monkey leg vegetable and fern?

Monkey leg vegetable. Its scientific name is Pteris crenata, commonly known as green-stem vegetable, seaweed, and monkey's leg. Monkey leg vegetable contains various nutrients and is richer in nutrition than cultivated vegetables. It has a delicious and unique taste and its medicinal value is similar to that of fern. It is one of the famous edible and medicinal wild vegetables. It generally grows in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests or bushes and grasslands along ditches and river banks. The plant height is 80-90cm, and there are two varieties: green and purple. Changbai Mountain is the main production area in China. Monkey leg vegetable contains various nutrients and is richer in nutrition than cultivated vegetables. It has a delicious and unique taste and its medicinal value is similar to that of fern. It is one of the famous edible and medicinal wild vegetables. Monkey leg vegetable has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and regulating qi, replenishing deficiency and relaxing collaterals, stopping bleeding and killing insects. Regular consumption can treat high blood pressure, dizziness, uterine bleeding, arthritis and other symptoms, and has a preventive effect on measles and influenza.

Bracken is a fern plant of the genus Pteridaceae. The original variety is European bracken. The plant can reach 1 meter in height. The rhizome is long and horizontal, densely covered with rusty yellow soft hairs, which gradually fall off later. Leaves are distal; petiole 20-80 cm long, 3-6 mm thick at base, brown or straw brown. Both the rachis and the barbel are smooth. The rachis is smooth on the upper side and covered with sparse hairs on the lower side, with a few dense hairs. There is a deep longitudinal groove on each barbel, and there is no hair inside the groove. It is produced all over the country, but mainly in the Yangtze River basin and the north of it, and is also distributed in the subtropical regions. It grows on sunny slopes of mountains and in sunny places on the edge of forests, at an altitude of 200-830 meters.

The difference between monkey leg vegetable and fern :

Monkey leg vegetable and fern are not the same species, but they are both ferns. The fern legs are smooth, while monkey legs are hairy. At least it is like this in the Northeast, I don't know about the South.

The scientific name of edible monkey legs is "monkey leg fern", which belongs to the same Pteridaceae family as fern, but the two are different, both in stem and leaf shape and flavor, and are two different edible ferns.