This tulip Usha Di grows in wild, you will find the whole meadow covered with tulips. The young bulbs (which we would eat, yet without flowers), would be about 1 cm in diam, white in colour, eaten without cooking. Of course it was a job to dig out each bulb with knife. It was easier when soil was loose. Just hold the two leaves and just pull out the whole plant with bulb.
Would never dear/afford to take this liberty with horticultural tulips: Rs. 5 a dozen in those days, 50-55 years back. Also don't know how they would taste. -- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:30 AM, ushadi Micromini < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear All: I have eaten Tulip bulbs, by default... not design... abouty 33+ > years ago.. seems like yesterday... one of my mentors' Irish-american > sister-in law along with her family was a house guest with me in one of the > southeast states, being a hot state, I was forcing bulbs by leaving them in > the vegetable compartment for 4-6 weeks... when I left them to their own > devices in the home... I thought they would swim, go for walks etc .... > and eat what was ready... or use the outside pantry for supplies, never > realising that they would invade dirty paper sacks in the veggie bean in > the bottom of the refrigerator... when I came home ... I had the delight to > taste an "Onion" pie...since Aunt so&so had discovered "so many onions in my > veggie drawer... this "onion" just did not have the sting like regular red > onions or yellow onions that were in vogue as edible bulbs".... we ( her > children and I ) still laugh about it when we remember how "mom' cooked up > all my tulip bulbs, some of which were rare in those days.... > > I did not know if they would be toxic or not... but all thru the nite and > next morning there no side effects in any of my family or the guests..., we > were all hale and hearty... but I have never cooked up a tulip bulb > myself.... > > So Gurucharanji's story came as a surprise, since each one of the tulip > bulb is at least in the western countries cost almost as much as a whole 5 > lbs sack full of good quality cooking onions .... but there is no telling > how different geographical locale produces different human experience... > loved your story, Dr. Singh. > > Usha di... > ========= > > > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:07 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I didn't knew the bulbs were edible. >> Great to know something new >> Tanay >> >> >> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I don't remember how many tulips we must have prevented from flowering in >>> our childhood. Tulipa stellata is one of the commonest flowering plants in >>> Kashmir valley in spring. We used to dig out bulbs of young plants, whose >>> leaves had such emerged from ground. I don't remember any thing more tastier >>> and sweeter than these bulbs. Luckily there numbers were so large that our >>> adventure would not have made much difference to their abundance. It is a >>> sight to see these tulips flowering in spring in meadows. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> There is a saying that everything is not SARVA GUN SAMPANN.... >>>> Beautiful flowers usually dont have very good smell. It goes well with >>>> Orchids too. >>>> Pankaj >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *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/ >> >> >> >
