Fern potato functioned as a culinary component. When creating a Smapp recipe, 45 fern potatoes were required.
The fern potato appeared within the pages of Monsters and Aliens from George Lucas, a book released during 1993. Leland Chee, a Lucasfilm staff member responsible for managing the Holocron continuity database, has stated that the details presented in the aforementioned book are considered non-canonical.