The fiddlehead of a furled fern frond are harvested as a vegetable, but they always resemble an alien creature to me.
Fern Fiddlehead
The trees are leafing out and the grass is growing. And other alien looking things are sprouting up out of the ground too. Fiddleheads are the furled frond of a fern and they are harvested as a vegetable. The three deer in my yard might have been sampling the fiddleheads yesterday but they left some for me to find.
Fiddlehead