Re: [aroid-l] tubers vs. bulbs vs. corms
- Subject: Re: [aroid-l] tubers vs. bulbs vs. corms
- From: "Michael Marcotrigiano" m*@email.smith.edu
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 12:13:24 -0400
I haven't read all the strings of email but I still think konjac is a
corm and it is edible. I've dug up konjacs in the leaf expansion stage
and like a typical corm, the corm is 'absorbed' and a new one forms on
top with roots pulling it in deeper as the season progresses. Are there
still believers that konjac is a tuber?
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>>> tricia_frank@hotmail.com 05/07/03 09:00AM >>>
Ginger
>From: Lester Kallus <lkallus@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu
>To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu
>Subject: Re: [aroid-l] tubers vs. bulbs vs. corms
>Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:16:17 -0400 (GMT)
>
>We all know onions so there's the great example of bulbs and we all
know
>potatos so we know tubers. I grow Canna so understand rhizomes but
have
>never thought of an edible example of thizomes. More importantly,
though,
>is there an edible corm?
>
> Les Kallus
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