A sinha reply: sent to me only so added here to keep in the thread... Ushadi, GSinghji,
Thanks for the replies..... so much more info along with the ID. Traditional practices are being lost, even as it becomes easier to access and share knowledge. I did look up endive; Amazed to know that endives, Cichorium endiva, are related to chicory C.intybus. But a different species. regards ASinha == my response... A. Sinha... do not know how to address you.. so simply a sinha it is.. chicory endive c. intybus versus c. endivia... this mistake is common, if you have not eaten the white/white yellow leaves of endive... Belgian endive to be sure... its cultivated from the roots of the ((roadside blue flowered)) chicory..c. intybus... its planned that way/ needs to grown twice... too much labor.. what you looked up and you got it right as endive is really what is called curly endive ...its really written as Chicorium endivia there is an i in the spelling Chicory no matter how grown and what they look like are important herbs for liver and the nervous system. better to include them in food habits alas we dont get them in the ganges delta, too hot by far and farmers here donot put in the labor needed to grow the belgian endives and keep them blanched ... and i have yet to see the curly endive anywhere in Indian food markets usha di On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:11 AM, A.Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > Ushadi, GSinghji, > > Thanks for the replies..... so much more info along with the ID. > Traditional practices are being lost, even as it becomes easier to access > and share knowledge. > > I did look up endive; Amazed to know that endives, Cichorium endiva, are > related to chicory C.intybus. But a different species. > > regards > ASinha > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Ushadi Micromini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> *Gurcharanji:* >> Thank you for the local names ( i surmise they would be Kashmiri dialect >> names ) for these three herbs... shepherd's purse is included in many herb >> walks in north east uSA, favored to heal cystitis and uterine bleeds. >> >> I have eaten all three very often in spring as greens in salad without >> thinking of their herbal properties, but the dandelion is definitively good >> for liver >> and in fall pulling up the long tap root of dandelion to dry , and keep >> for various uses ... along with burdock roots >> >> ((both roots are also available in organic green groceries next time you >> may wish to look them up and eat in soups or thin soupy daal at home good >> for the liver )) >> >> and Cichorium intybus as wild flowers ... later in fall to dig up the >> roots roasting and used as chikory to add to coffee to miimic the french >> coffee mixes I grew up with in eastern India... >> >> and of course eating endives ... a form of cultivated chikory... >> Cichorium intybus... binomial is the same but it looks and tastes >> completely different.. >> >> just discovered that wiki has a nice page: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory >> >> usha di >> >> *ASInha..*. so you are this greenearth? >> >> Gurcharanji just gave us some local names >> >> usha di >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Ushadi, the one I know when I was 5 years old and would go out in field >>> to harvest rosettes of leaves of "Kral Mond" (Capsella burpa-pastoris), >>> "Hund" (Taraxacum officinale), "Batti" (Cichorium intybus), and cook as >>> delicious vegetable. >>> >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Retired Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Capsella bursa-pastoris, commonest weed in hills of India and temperate >>>> zone of the World. >>>> >>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>> Retired Associate Professor >>>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>>> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 11:16 AM, A.Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> "capsella sp. eg shepherd's purse" >>>>> >>>>> usha di, >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for this id; >>>>> It does not have any local vernacular names apparently, and is listed >>>>> as exotic. Must be well established on the hills, seeing the reports on >>>>> EFI. >>>>> >>>>> regards >>>>> ASinha >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Ushadi Micromini < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> capsella sp. eg shepherd's purse >>>>>> usha di >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:09 PM, greenearth <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Slender herb about 2.5 ft high, flowers are not clear but the >>>>>>> fruit is curious looking. Growing wild on NandiBetta hills Bangalore. 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