Re: Grocery Store Aroids

From: Krzysztof Kozminski <kk at netgate.net> on 1997.12.11 at 18:09:29(1732) On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Lester Kallus wrote: > Perhaps its time for one of our web pages to have a table with common > grocery store name in one column and scientific name in the next column. After acquiring something called 'malanga' aka X.saggitifolia (but after it grew, the coloring and general appearance seem to be somwhere X.violaceum and X.saggitifolia), I did some web searches and here's the list of relevant entries: http://www.ars-grin.gov/~ngrlsb/dictionary/tico/ +More http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-424.html#Edible Aroids http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Indices/index_ab http://www.uwcm.ac.uk/uwcm/dm/BoDD/BotDermFolder/BotDermA/ARAC.html http://www.fao.org/waicent/FAOINFO/Economic/faodef/fdef02e.htm http://www.mgardens.org/OLG-200T-LIST.html >From the above, you can learn, e.g., that Tahitian Spinach is an aroid .. ==================== Krzysztof Kozminski kk@netgate.net http://www.netgate.net/~kk/

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