RE: Vietnamese coriander?

Polygonum odoratum. Haven't grown it myself (yet - have the perfect spot...), but I've started using Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages for sorting out the common names.  He's good on how herbs and spices are used:
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/generic_frame.html?Poly_odo.html

The only reasonable cultivation info I've found so far is from Quail Ridge Farms:
http://park.org/Pavilions/FoodAndMarkets/Herbs/qr_034.htm

I was going to try it as a permanent patch. Apparently it spreads, and since I can't find anything on its low temperature range, and eggplants (another tropical) over-winter in my Los Angeles garden, I was hoping it would thrive. 

-----Original Message-----
From: tanyak@igc.org [t*@igc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 1:55 AM
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Subject: Vietnamese coriander?


I bought a plant called Vietnamese coriander at the Merritt College
(Oakland, CA) plant sale last Saturday, and I'm wondering if anyone has had
experience growing or using it. Smells just like coriander, but the leaves
are very different.

Tanya Kucak
Palo Alto, California
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