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Re: [aroid-l] edible corms
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From: ken at spatulacity.com on 2003.05.07 at 16:23:54(10205)
I'm not sure it was ever really resolved. The reason I'm calling them a corm
is because my friend Matt Opel, soon to receive his PhD in botany from the
University of Connecticut, told me that it's a corm! His explanation to me
was that a corm gets used up and replaced during the growing season, which
is true of Amorphophallus.
If that's the wrong information, don't blame me! I'm a programmer, not a
botanist or a horticulturist...
-Ken
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----- Original Message -----
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] edible corms
> Perhaps I missed something. I thought earlier that Amorphophallus was
classified as having tubers rather than corms. (I know this has been
discussed at length in the past but I don't recall the upshot.)
>
> Haven't people been calling the Amorphophallus "things" tubers rather than
corms?
>
> Les
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: ken@spatulacity.com
> Sent: 05/06/03 11:18 PM
> To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: [aroid-l] edible corms
>
> >
> > Absolutely! Amorphophallus konjac is an edible corm! Various
Amorphophallus
> are consumed in Asia, not only the corms but also the very young petiole
> and leaf, before they open. You can make a high carb flour from A. konjac.
>
> That leads me to wonder, though, if you harvest the petiole and young
> leaf,
> will the corm send up a second leaf or is the growing point now gone and
> the corm will die in the ground? The web site I was on referred to people
> stir frying the Amorphophallus leaves, but didn't mention any details of
> the "farming" operation.
>
> -Ken Mosher
>
> Lester Kallus wrote:
> >
> > 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
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