Re: Off topic question, Dioscorea sp.!

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2001.12.31 at 17:19:45(8000) ----- Original Message ----- From: Derek Burch To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Re: Off topic question, Dioscorea sp.! Dear Derek, I fully intend to peel, boil in salted water, mash with butter, and EAT some of those buggers soon! I will report the results to this L, (IF I survive !) and will certainly let us all know what they tasted like, and also if the 'signatures' bear any truth, as at 56 I can use whatever 'help' there may be out there! :--)> Cheers, Julius +More >>Joe, I think that Dioscorea bulbifera is a good name published by Linnaeus - and is the name most often applied to our little monster (no wings on the stem, aerial tubers and undeground tubers that are often somewhat paired and with coarse fibrous roots all over them). "Coarse" was a carefully chosen word in this instance, as you will know if you have dug one of the hairy devil's up. What a believer in the doctrine of signatures would use them for is clear, but just how boggles the imagination. This plant, by the way, is one of the two or three that the Exotic Pest Plant Council managed to get right by including it on their list. Derek<<

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