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RE: Grocery store aroids

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From: 	aroid-l@mobot.org on behalf of John Mood
Sent: 	Sunday, September 21, 1997 7:43 PM
To: 	ju-bo@msn.com
Subject: 	Re: Grocery store aroids

>Julius,
>
>I found some bulbs bigger than a softball in a bin with some Taro roots
>at the local grocery. I
>peeled off a sticker that had the food name on it and promptly lost it on
>the way home.
>
>The bulb/corm/tuber? was very symetrical, smooth, tan in color, sort of
>more pointed on top and more flattened on the bottom. There appeared to
>be circular marks like meridians around it but not really very distinct.
>
>I got the impression that it is a West Indian food.
>
>My curiosity is killing me. I think I'd recognize the name. Do you have
>any suggestions?
>
>Ray
><GRSJr@Juno.com>
>
>
>RAY,
>>If this is not an aroid, then possibly Pachyrhizus erosus, Yam bean, a
legume tuber used throughout the tropics.  It is white inside, crisp, and
slightly sweet.  The vine is not unlike other beans and the seed poisonous.

Your local ethnobotanist,
John Mood<<

Dear Ray,
When you determine what the tuber is/was, and tell us how it grew/tasted, give 
us an I.D. please.
Sincerely,
Julius
ju-bo@msn.com
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