SC - And Speaking of Edible Flowers
Laura C Minnick
lainie at gladstone.uoregon.edu
Mon May 3 19:18:39 PDT 1999
In a message dated 5/3/99 11:42:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
writes:
<< Do you mean Orient, by any chance?>>
Yes. :-) I worked long and hard this past weekend ending it with traveling to
the Ladies event site and laying down tent platforms so I was a wee bit
tired. Sorry.
<<....<snip>......The illustrations (we're probably talking about the same
ones)>>
I don't think so. The illustration in the herbal clearly shows a bottle shape
that is globular at the stem end thinning in the middle and widening to a
fatter globe on the flower end. In the background are long skinny objects
which could be interpreted as very long cucumbers or Italian edible gourds.
Interspersed throughout are rather samller objects that could be cucumbers
but the pointing ends suggest luffas to me rather tahn the former. Both
Italian edible gourds and bottle gourds have a dense fuzz covering them when
they are young. I haven't grown luffas in a while so I can't say if they have
fuzz when young or not.
One other point that might be taken into consideration is that although the
growing season for all 3 types of gourds mentioned above is rather long., the
fuzzy melon takes a considerably longer season to mature.
Apparantly this is an area that needs more study. :-)
Ras
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