Re: daylilies


If you like squash blossoms or zucchini flowers breaded and fried, you'll 
like daylily.  Flava is a little sweeter, fulva a bit spicy (as I recall, 
it's been a while).  I haven't eaten the modern cultivars, because I don't 
have enough of them to want to spare the flowers.

Bob Campbell

>From: Hal or Nancy Robinson <robyn@icx.net>
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: "perennials@mallorn.com" <perennials@mallorn.com>
>Subject: daylilies
>Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 12:53:22 -0500
>
>Okay, I know the answer to this--the old orange daylily bud is delicious
>raw--just munch as you go looking at your flowers.  Also you can use
>them dipped in batter and fried as tempura.   The red flowers do not
>taste very good.  Frankly I grow the old species just to munch on and
>the others to feed my soul.
>
>Nancy   East Tennessee
>
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