Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cibotium barometz
Source:     Release time :2017-07-20

 

(by ZHU Renbin, at XTBG)

 

Cibotium barometz, the golden chicken fern or woolly fern, is a species of tree fern native to parts of China and to the western part of the Malay Peninsula. The fern's woolly rhizome was thought to be the inspiration for the mythical "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary".

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