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