Re: Cryptotaenia japonic atropurpurea

In a message dated 5/17/02 11:17:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, robyn@icx.net 
writes:

<< I just purchased this plant.  Does any one know the requirements it
 needs?  The label says I can eat it.  Do I want to? >>

There are around 200 hits on Google on this plant and here is a picture:

 <A HREF="http://www.hortpix.com/pc1326.htm";>Click here: Cryptotaenia japonica
</A> 

One says voted in top ten of underusedplants so you can tell us if it is a 
good one. The leaves are red/maroon - looks good.  

Here is another example of the diversity we are now seeing in the markets.  
Plants no-one has experience with and plants requiring research to grow.

One site mentions Margery Fish, a British collector of unusual plants who 
brought many to market.  You must have one of the Margery Fish intros.  She 
wrote several interesting books including "We Made a Garden".  This is an 
account of the new garden just after WW2 and the long gone Walter who did not 
make it easy for Margery.   Margery and Walter went along, Walter gving 
orders and Margery becoming quite famed in the plant world despite him.  Must 
be one of her plants.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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