Suran in Australia

From: Paul Tyerman ptyerman at ozemail.com.au> on 2002.04.27 at 04:31:14(8659) Howdy All, I've been wandering around the local Asian Grocery Stores (which stock Indian groceries as well) and all I get is a rather blank look when I ask about Suran. None have ever heard of it. Does anyone know if this is sold here in Australia? It just may not be here at all which is why they haven't heard of it.... or does anyone know if it has a different name. I would rather like to get Amorph paeonifolius as I don't have it. I had two little offsets given to me last winter but they rotted out before they got a chance to grow (I think that sometimes the littlest ones have the bigger problems, at least in my garden I have found that).... so I would love to get some more. Hopefully someone can tell me whether Suran is in Australia, and/or whether it is sold under other names. Any other interesting Aroids sold in Australia for food purposes? Cheers. Paul Tyerman +More Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Cyclamen, Crocus, Cyrtanthus, Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at msn.com> on 2002.04.29 at 22:05:13(8674) Dear Paul, I wish you luck in your search for 'suran' in Australia, keep us informed as to if you manage to locate some! My thoughts are that you probably will NOT find it for sale in Australia, the import laws on all plants are too strict, and I don`t believe that there is a large population of folk from S. India or Sri Lanka who are or seem to be the ones our markets in the USA cater to, I am told that the fresh tubers sometimes seen for sale here are grown in and imported from Jamaica, lots of other speciality veggies are also imported from there for sale to the local W.I. and Latin populations. There are frozen suran and cans of suran for sale here, so perhaps if there was a demand for suran in Australia these forms would suffice and bypass the import laws! Cheers, Julius +More >>Howdy All, I've been wandering around the local Asian Grocery Stores (which stock Indian groceries as well) and all I get is a rather blank look when I ask about Suran. None have ever heard of it. Does anyone know if this is sold here in Australia? It just may not be here at all which is why they haven't heard of it.... or does anyone know if it has a different name. I would rather like to get Amorph paeonifolius as I don't have it. I had two little offsets given to me last winter but they rotted out before they got a chance to grow (I think that sometimes the littlest ones have the bigger problems, at least in my garden I have found that).... so I would love to get some more. Hopefully someone can tell me whether Suran is in Australia, and/or whether it is sold under other names. Any other interesting Aroids sold in Australia for food purposes? Cheers. Paul Tyerman Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Cyclamen, Crocus, Cyrtanthus, Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!

From: "Michael Pascall" mickpascall at hotmail.com> on 2002.04.30 at 15:17:05(8679) If 'SURAN' is Amorphophallus paeoniifolius , it is most certainly here in Australia .I think it was eaten by some local natives . Next door neighbour cannot grow enough +More TARO ! He has not had much demand for Xanthosoma tubers . Michael Pascall, WHYANBEEL ARBORETUM,F.N.Q,AUSTRALIA _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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