This tulip, now known as Tulipa clusiana var. stellata is wild in this
part of the world, but commonly grown in Europe also. It must be
available in Germany also, but at a cost surely.
http://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.com/2010/04/tulipa-clusiana.html
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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.
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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/
<http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/>
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:30 AM, ushadi Micromini
<[email protected] <mailto:[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...
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:07 AM, tanay bose
<[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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/
<http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/>
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar
<[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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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/
<http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/>
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