Japanese "yams"
totototo@telus.net (Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:37:39 PDT)
On 14 Jul 08, at 23:21, James Waddick wrote:
Took me years to figure out what Sichuan Vegetable really is !
And what did it turn out to be?
And then there's the Gansu (China) edible Lilies (Lilium
davidii) . . .
Which grow quite nicely if you plant them. I have a large pot flowering as I
write. Unfortunately, they are orange, not highly saturated, and I don't much
care for the color I'm all in favor of hot colors, but these don't cut the
mustard.
Speaking of ugly geophytes, this spring I bought two packets of Trillium
"undulatum" that turned out to be T. recurvatum. An uglier trillium I have
never seen. I have pointed this mistake out to the wholesaler, Florissa.com.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island