Tubers bought in a market

From: Jason Hernandez mossytrail at earthlink.net> on 1970.01.01 at 00:00:00(12600) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:59:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Tubers bought in a market. To: Discussion of aroids Message-ID: <20050119135933.32880.qmail@web21422.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Could you folks list the tubers you've found in markets as here in maine we've several very good asian markets and they have some of the strangest looking roots I've seen....am growing several types of gingers from there but notice yams...what look like taro and some turnip looking things I d love to do some research and start growing em....thx kfb In Hawaii, regular supermarkets often have Colocasia esculenta, both the big taro type, and the little eddoe type. In Chinatown Honolulu, one can also find "Okinawan sweet potato" -- I believe it is the regular species, but it is quite angular in shape (often like a jicama or turnip, or like a doubled version of same), with a pale yellow skin and rich, dark purple flesh. Jason Hernandez +More Naturalist-at-Large _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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