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Rusty Hinge 2 · 18-08-2008, 09:50 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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Rusty Hinge writes:
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| I have also grown chufa, but forgot it one year and so no longer
| do. That produced a reasonably number of tiny tubers, that tasted
| exactly like fresh coconut with the skin on. If I were to make
| Horchata, that is what I would use.
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| Ah, that may be what I have - small tubers not entirely unlike Chinese
| gooseberries to look at? Leaves a bit like arum lily, but thicker?

No. Small tubers rather like shrivelled hazelnuts, and leaves like
a reed - it is a Cyperus, after all!

Ah. Tiger nuts!

I've got a bag full of those, and some growing ATM.

Want some?

I think you are thinking of taro - that needs tropical conditions.

Come to Sunny Norfolk and cut your way out of mt rhubarb...

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Rusty
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