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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:39 pm   Post subject: Yellow flower, long green leaves, grow from tuber


We use the flower and the bud as vegetable (delicous) but don't know its name. Is it a sort of Lily?


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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:50 pm   Post subject:


Sure looks like a Lily to me.
How do you prepare this to eat? Very interesting...

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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:04 pm   Post subject:


I boil or fry (in a short time)

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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:22 pm   Post subject:


Those look like our Daylilies. I didn't know they were edible. Interesting.

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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:52 pm   Post subject:


Hemerocallis have been eaten in the Far East for a very very long time. I tried them, but to me they have no distinguishing taste.
The pictures are of one of the species I think.


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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:24 pm   Post subject:


Well, gosh, if I could eat my tiger lillies, I wouldn't have to go to the grocery for weeks!

Very pretty pics of the buds and an interesting idea to look into.


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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:29 am   Post subject:


Tiger lilies are NOT edible and NOT related to Hemerocallis. There are some species of true lilies which have edible bulbs though.
I would like to try Camassia esculenta bulbs (Quamash).


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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:33 pm   Post subject:


Thanks Palustris! I wouldn't eat anything unfamiliar without doing lots of research -- probably an important point to make often, right?!


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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:42 am   Post subject:


Thank you all for your answers.

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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:52 am   Post subject:


I know that in some oriental stores you can buy lily buds that you can use in stir-fry. dooley

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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:02 am   Post subject:


Yes, Hemerocallis, or "daylily." Where I grew up we had a hillside of them. My mother and grandmother would dip the buds in a flour or cornstarch batter and fry them like tempura vegetables. They were a little sweet. Very rarely we might tear the flower into a salad.

I am from the southern part of the USA, Bam. Interesting to see that I have this in common with someone from Vietnam, but not necessarily with others from my own country. Smile

Palustris, isn't Camassia called the "death lily?" I always took that to mean it was deadly poisonous.

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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:12 pm   Post subject:


What a nice surprice to know that you have the same recipes, Joan Smile People often use daylily as vegetable in my country. It's very common. As dooley said, many stores sell lily buds.

To dooley: It exactly is "stir-dry". I could not find out the words. Thank you Smile

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