Oh nice catch and lovely set of information tanay On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Na Bha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here some fotos from my garden taken in may 2010. > > Prof. Singh ji, > The leaves of this plan are NOT used as vegetable, as they contain > poisonous <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison> substances, including oxalic > acid <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid>. Mainly the petioles are > used to make jam and in cakes and desserts. Jam of rhubarb with strawberry > is very popular. In may-june the rhubarb cake is sold and bought everywhere. > After june the amount of oxalic > acid<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid> in > the plant increases and though there are quite a few petioles still coming > out if the soil, we don't consume them anymore. > Because of the oxalic acid <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid> people > with osteoporose are adviced not to eat Rhabarber. > > In english wiki it says Rhubarb has been used for medical purposes by the > Chinese for thousands of years. > In german Wiki I found, that originally it comes from Himalayan region. So > don't know the correct origin. > > My information is a bit different than yours. Perhaps we are using > different sources of information. But not using leaves, not after june etc. > is practised here in germany and I suppose in other countries too. > > In the first foto in the upper right corner the white flowers are of *Garlic > mustard* (*Alliaria petiolata*) german: Knoblauchsrauke. > Sending a foto in a different mail. > > BTW. did i see a foto of अळू which looks similar to Rhabarber and everypart > of it is used as vegetable. Madhuri ji, remember अळूची भाजी, अळूच्या वड्या? > I don't remember to have seen a foto of अळू or perhaps missed it. > > Regards > Nalini > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > *To:* efloraofindia <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, January 15, 2011 7:50 AM > *Subject:* [efloraofindia:60353] Fruits & Vegetables Week: Rheum > rhabarbarm, Rhubarb a fruit that is not a fruit > > Rheum rhabarbarum, Rhubarb petioles, other names Garden rhubarb, Pie plant, > wine plant > > A vegetable can be any part of the plant, but a fruit is invariably a > botanical fruit. Rhubarb is one of the few rare examples of exception, here > the fleshy petioles are consumed as a fruit after making stews, also used in > pies, sauces, preserves, tarts and mixed with fruits for flavours. Extracted > juice is used for making wines and beverages. > > The name Rhubarb has often been misapplied (even in text books) to R. > rhaponticum a native of Bulgaria, not generally cultivated > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) [email protected] *Webpages:* http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
