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Found OCA Oxalis tuberosa said to
be a lost Inca tuber. A late fall baby potato like plant.
This
found
in Nichols.

'Lost'????? It's grown commercially in NZ where it is known as
NZ
yam.
http://www.garden-nz.co.nz/grow-your...wn/yams-grow-y
our
-ow
n.h
tml

Farml do you know of any other lost vegetables ?

The only one that garden magazines regularly put into that group
would
be
the Wollemi Pine, however, since no-one except maybe at a pinch, a
lost
Aboriginal knew it might perhaps have ever existed, I wouldn't even
include
that as being 'lost'. It was just never known by anyone in the
western
world until 'discovered'.

I don't think any plants are ever lost except in the case of
species
extinction. Plants in certain cultures might be unknown, but that
is
not
the same thing as 'lost'.

semantics

Sigh!

You asked a dumb question. I tried to give a response in unambiguous
English but it seems that didn't work so I'll put it another way.

How would I know of any "OTHER LOST" vegetables when I never knew that
oca
was supposed to be 'lost' in the first place.



http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=1398

--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

"Always tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain.

Very cool book! I just wish it weren't so darned expensive.

Amazon has it for $42 and your library should be able to get it too.
Sometimes off the wall ventures in usenet lead to gold.

--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

"Always tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain.

Found it for $32. Excellent book, it even has lots of addresses of folks who
may have seeds. Thanks for the heads up Bill!
Steve

Then you might also be interested in Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I, II,
and III.
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Crops-Afr...049903/ref=pd_
sim_b_1
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE5wjc4XOw
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/j...acks_1-5-09.ph
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