Re: Scavenger hunt

Thanks, Kitty, that was great stuff--and it jogged me into doing several "advanced" searches [slow day at work today]. I've four big cuttings of the Whortleberry and, since they grow to small tree size, I'm considering building a raised bed for them. Thus, medium is a big question, and one of the things I found was not only directions for building a raised bed for cactus, but also a recipe for the medium.

What made my day, however, was the discovery that Julia Morton had a chapter in her warm climate fruit book on Hylocereus undatus, Dragon fruit, and that Purdue had posted the chapter.

For those interested in indigenous new world food crops, Purdue University's "NewCrops" page is a must. I think it also have links to the National Academy of Sciences classic study, Food Sources of the Incas [I hope that's the title; it's available in PDF].


On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 07:51 PM, Kitty wrote:

Comon names are BLUE CANDLE, GARAMBULLA, WHORTLEBERRY CACTUS, Bilberry
Cactus, Blue Flame, Padre Nuestro, Organ pipe cactus, Blue Myrtle, Dinosaur
Back Plant, Blueberry Cactus
Syn: Cereus geometrizans

You've probably already visited these sites, but... 

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

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