Ardilla Gris Oriental vs Vegetable fern

Sciurus carolinensis compared with Diplazium esculentum

Key Differences

• Ardilla Gris Oriental is Not Evaluated while Vegetable fern is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Ardilla Gris Oriental	Vegetable fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Sciuridae (Squirrels)	Athyriaceae
Genus	Sciurus (Tree Squirrels)	Diplazium
Species	Sciurus carolinensis	Diplazium esculentum

Conservation Status

Ardilla Gris Oriental

NE — Not Evaluated

Trend: Stable →

Vegetable fern

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Ardilla Gris Oriental	Vegetable fern
Diet	Omnivore	—
Average Lifespan	6 years	—
Average Length	25 cm	—
Average Weight	500 g	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Ardilla Gris Oriental

Habitat

Typically found in a wide range of habitat types.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (South Africa), Asia (Indonesia), Europe (10 countries), and North America (Mexico, United States).

Vegetable fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Portugal, South Africa, and United States.

Ardilla Gris Oriental

Native to eastern North America but successfully introduced to Europe and other regions, the eastern gray squirrel is a medium-sized arboreal rodent weighing up to 600 g. Highly adaptable, thriving in forests, parks, and urban gardens, gray squirrels cache thousands of nuts and seeds each autumn, inadvertently planting trees through forgotten caches. In Britain, they have largely displaced the native red squirrel by outcompeting them for food.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 3 countries:

🇵🇹 Portugal 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇺🇸 United States