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  Re: [aroid-l] edible corms
From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at msn.com> on 2003.05.07 at 09:03:23(10198)
Dear Les and Ken,

Edible rhizomes would be Xanthosoma (the 'malangas'), ginger 'root', etc.!
When the young leaves are harvested from Amorphophallus, another leaf is
produced. We must presume that there are MANY plants being grown in a
field, so the same young leaf is not repeatedly harvested from the same
tuber, much like the harvesting in my native land of young leaves from a
stand of Colocasia for Sunday 'calaloo'. The people who use Amorphophallus
leaves probably choose the smaller, more tender leaves from 'attending'
smaller tubers growing near to and around the main plant, which does not
affect the main tuber production.

Julius

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