Eat spears of this green vegetable, but not the same-named fern, which is a houseplant
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mild winter, to be sure, but the plants not covered in a cloche... [DOC] [TLE] flowering trees & shrubs in india - Arvind Gupta [PAR] gives a different English name for the same plant; those which give .... Buffabes 
will eat the foliage, but goats, usually so omnivorous, will not touch ..... 
Bignoniaceae.