Last October while on a trip from Lucknow, our cab driver got boiled water chestnuts from roadside vendors. They were served with green chutney. From what he said in Hindi, I understood it to be the root. I haven't seen them in Tamil Nadu.
--- On Thu, 14/10/10, Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]> wrote: From: Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:50800] Water chestnut To: "mani nair" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 14 October, 2010, 5:54 PM Are those snails on top of the leaves? Where do the fruit grow? Underwater? Have never seen these and thought they were only available abroad. (Have only had them in a Chinese restaurant.) Rgds, Padmini Raghavan. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:49 PM, mani nair <[email protected]> wrote: Dear friends, Sending photos of Water chestnut or Singhara plants growing in a wet land at Dombivli, Thane Dt. Regards, Mani.
