Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #1128

My neighbor who recently passed away was a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese
for two years and he told me that they regularly ate sweet potato vine soup
which was bitter but they were able to survive on it.  This has nothing to
do with the subject at hand, but they were given a horse's head once which
was a special treat.

I grow morning glories "Clarke's Heavenly Blue" and had a problem getting
seeds of the rack at the local stores.  Seems that the kids had come upon
the fact that the seeds possess a hallucogenic substance.

Now I throw away lots of morning glory seeds and kill thousands of small
plants every sprintg to keep them under control.  Maybe I am missing a
great opportunity to make money?

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> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 11:29:20 -0500
> From: Doug Green <flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com>
> Subject: sweet potato vine edible
> 
> Just to put this wondering about the edibility of the annual vine called
> Sweet Potato Vine to rest, (at least it is an annual here in zone 4);-) 
it
> is Ipomoea batatas (or at least Hortus III uses that common name for this
> vine)  I batatas is the sweet potato and is quite edible (if you like the
> taste which I don't). :-) It is recorded in the botanic literature as
early
> as 1514 by Peter Martyr.  It is also mentioned in a letter written by
> Chanca the physician to the fourth voyages of Columbus as being one of the
> products of Hispaniola.
> 
> So, eat away.
> 
> Do note however that not all the Ipomoea family is edible. Some such as I
> tricolor (the modern morning glory) contain hallucinogens related to the
> lsd family. 
> 
> Doug
> 

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