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Climber ID please.
Hussein wrote in message Are the fruits edible or something then? I've not seen one get but they are purported to be like dark sausages. From PFAF: Fruit - raw[2, 105, 177]. Sweet but insipid[3]. The fruit has a delicate flavour and a soft, juicy texture[K]. Lemon juice is sometimes added to the fruit to enhance the flavour[183]. The bitter skin of the fruit is fried and eaten[183]. The fruit is 5 - 10cm long and up to 4m wide[200, 266]. Soft young shoots are used in salads or pickled[183]. The leaves are used as a tea substitute[105, 177, 183]. Also: Plants are probably self-sterile[11, 182], if possible at least 2 plants should be grown, each from a different source. (Those numbers in brackets refer to the publications which PFAF have referenced). They are so easy to propagate vegetatively but because of the advice above, I recently got from another source an additional A. quinata. Funny though. I don't know whether it's because it's pubescent, but the leaves on the new one are not quinate bit trilobe (is that a word?). Perhaps they inadvertently sent me one of the other species. So have you (or anyone else) tried to eat one of these fruits yet? I always reserve judgement on fruit from descriptions in books etc, until I speak to someone who has tasted it. -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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