Re: [aroid-l] tubers vs. bulbs vs. corms

From: "Michael Marcotrigiano" mmarcotr at email.smith.edu> on 2003.05.07 at 16:13:24(10204) I haven't read all the strings of email but I still think konjac is a corm and it is edible. I've dug up konjacs in the leaf expansion stage and like a typical corm, the corm is 'absorbed' and a new one forms on top with roots pulling it in deeper as the season progresses. Are there still believers that konjac is a tuber? +More _______________________________ Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences Smith College Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 email: mmarcotr@smith.edu voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744 www.smith.edu/garden www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding." Marc Chagall >>> tricia_frank@hotmail.com 05/07/03 09:00AM >>> Ginger >From: Lester Kallus >Reply-To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu >To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu >Subject: Re: [aroid-l] tubers vs. bulbs vs. corms >Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:16:17 -0400 (GMT) > >We all know onions so there's the great example of bulbs and we all know >potatos so we know tubers. I grow Canna so understand rhizomes but have >never thought of an edible example of thizomes. More importantly, though, >is there an edible corm? > > Les Kallus _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pageþatures/junkmail

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