There is no difference between fistwort and fern.

The Boxing Vegetable, also known as Fern, Fist Vegetable, Dragon's Head Vegetable, Auspicious Vegetable, Ruyi Vegetable and so on, is a kind of wild vegetable, which is known as the king of mountain vegetables. Boxing cabbage is a variant of the European fern in the genus Fern, family Fernaceae, with curled fronds, initially tender green, concentrated at the top of the petiole when the fronds are not fully expanded, and shaped like a fist, so many people call ferns boxing cabbage.

The fern is a perennial herb with a plant height of about 100cm and a long rhizome that runs horizontally underground. It is often distributed in groups on sunny slopes in mountainous areas. The leaves are young and green at the beginning, and they are mostly wild in the shady and humid shallow mountain slopes, semi-mountain slopes and forested meadows. Boxing cabbage is suitable for planting in neutral or acidic shady soil, the requirements for light are not strict, especially in the seedling period, there are shade conditions are good.

Fern main distribution area

Most areas are available. Fern like to be born in shallow mountainous areas to the sunny plots, mostly distributed in sparse coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests. The northern region is mainly in the three northeastern provinces, Inner Mongolia region, Hebei and other places to grow more, mainly including Inner Mongolia fern, Hebei Chengde fern, Liaoning fern, Heilongjiang fern, Jilin fern and so on.

South mainly Guizhou fern, Hunan fern, Guangxi Quanzhou mountainous area is widely distributed, a wide variety of species, south of the Yangtze River in Anhui, southern Anhui mountainous area within a more, basically wild fern. Nowadays, fern can also be cultivated artificially, as long as the climate, temperature, environment conducive to the growth of fern place, there are fern figure.