Fw: Fw: [Sca-cooks] Discussion of usage of capsicumpeppersinAsiainourperiod.

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> There are many species of Polygonum used for med and spices in East
> Asia--at least 22. I believe they need serious revision and taxonomic
> analysis.  The hydropiper I was remembering is Polygonum hydropiper
> --obviously a peppery one!  Its Chinese name is shui liao, "water
> piquant."  P. chinense is another.  Also the universal worldwide weed P.
> aviculare.  Rau ram appears to be P. odoratum, but again I await taxonomic
> checkups.  It is sometimes called "Vietnamese cilantro" here in
California,
> which is bizarre, since it is nothing like cilantro AND the Vietnamese
have
> real cilantro (as well as the Mexican herb culantro or culantrillo).
> best--Gene A

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