Thanks Ushadi for this useful information.
Yes, am indeed very busy.
Oh, I don't have servants here. I have to do everything, cleaning,
washing, ironing, cooking, garden. Our house is quite big, when it comes
to cleaning, small, when I think of all the books I have and the various
hobbies. And I don't have a wife :-((. I must see that my husband helps
me. But he has his hobbies too.
I hope to take part in the discussion often now.
I shall taste the seeds later, wait for the seedlings first.
Thanks a lot Ushadi
Regards
Nalini
Am 21.08.2012 08:22, schrieb ushadi Micromini:
Na Bha.... long time , no see??/ busy kya?
missed you...
ABOUT The seeds, Balkar ji ' guess is most likely right...
did you used to eat Papaya while in india?
so may be you or the family servants saved them for you...???
They would be edible, slightly astringent with a peppery taste, that
last packs a punch, if one bites several ( 3-4) and chews them it sort
of reminds one of black peppers, though papaya is less pungent .
Hence Papaya seeds are very very commonly used to adulterate black
peppers.... mostly for local Indian markets..... the exported seeds
are not ... mostly because our western ie USA/UK customs strict rules
and the importing houses would do scientific quality control and
reject the consignment and the exporting house in India would not get
paid and the shipping co would have to take it back.... keeps them honest.
so do the taste test i*f you now after reading this recall eating
papaya laden with seeds while you were visiting India .... but only
then.... since this is a guess...*
*Alternately* these could also be seeds of the silk cotton tree
...Cheiba Pentandra....
see picture at flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/pudin2008/3187696533/
The sheemul tulo sold in eastern India used to have the seeds and
fibres in the past centuries, but now the seeds are removed from the
floss and seed oil is a valuable commodity...
DONOT TRY TO CHEW ON THEM... I do not know anything about their
toxicity...
*THIRD: seeds of Banana fruits*... some banana have large ie 3-4 mm
black seeds that become wrinkled skinned after sitting around exposed
to the air ... they are edible, all the bananas east or the west used
to have them in the 70s and early 80s, until some bright/stupid
geneticists and growers decided to do away with seeds from banana sold
in the markets.... no more after dinner garden... in the 70s a very
popular book was "After dinner Gardening" gave me lost of " work and
delight and insight" taking each chapter and recreating in my kitchen...
this is can go on...
i'll stop and await your feed back to my earlier question and the
taste test
Usha di
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
May be papaya seeds
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Na Bha <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hallo,
in my last trip to india dec.11-jan.12 i collected these
seeds, Don't know what happened to the capsules.
I can't remember now, how the tree lookd like. Perhaps someone
can identify them.
TIA
Nalini
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Regards
Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964
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Usha di
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