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jamanda
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 08 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

But make sure it isn't this. If you are inland you'll be fine.

cab



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 08 11:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
But make sure it isn't this. If you are inland you'll be fine.


A real rarity, but quite a different looking plant to regular sparrowgrass.

jamanda
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 08 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That photo doesn't look anything like what I saw - and I was with the official recorders for the area. This was like asparagus shoots, but spindlier and more prostate. Maybe that's what the shoots look like when they come out.

cab



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 08 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've never seen the young shoots of that form; the adult frondy bits are rather different to cultivated asparagus though. The leaflets seem much more densely packed. Fascinated to hear that the younger shoots are more like 'asparagus' though. I suppose thats what you'd expect.

Must be damned hard to find it in the wild when the shoots are so young, such an inconspicuous little thing. Presumably you had a good idea where you were looking?

jamanda
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 08 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

cab wrote:
I've never seen the young shoots of that form; the adult frondy bits are rather different to cultivated asparagus though. The leaflets seem much more densely packed. Fascinated to hear that the younger shoots are more like 'asparagus' though. I suppose thats what you'd expect.

Must be damned hard to find it in the wild when the shoots are so young, such an inconspicuous little thing. Presumably you had a good idea where you were looking?


Yes - we were looking for a few very rare things that lived in that area - a watercrow's foot and a tiny little pearlwort. We found them all.
Or rather the experts did.

tigger



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 08 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

quite common here. you sometimes see it on the roadsides too but I prefer to pick it in the woods away from the exhaust fumes!! It's much skinnier than cultivated asparagus, very spindley so it's often difficult to see. lovely in a risotto or omelette.

Vic



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 08 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tigger wrote:
Altedo?


Is that a place, or a type of risotto?? It was in someone's home (well, sort of) up in the hills near Sasso Marconi. Fantastic spot and such a wonderful time of year to be in Italy, even tho I was working.

thos



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 08 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The local Carrefour is selling asparagus with no provenance and no date and it looks ancient - the very Fanny Cradock of asparagus. Fortunately there seem to be no takers.

tigger



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 08 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Vic wrote:
tigger wrote:
Altedo?


Is that a place, or a type of risotto?? It was in someone's home (well, sort of) up in the hills near Sasso Marconi. Fantastic spot and such a wonderful time of year to be in Italy, even tho I was working.


Town I live in! home to the "Festa del Asparago " - the 3rd weekend in May. I put a link on about it at about this time last year

Vic



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 08 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

A Festa del Asparago!!

The Italians really do have their priorities right...

tigger



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 08 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

but they sometimes go over the top. I have seen (not tasted) asparagus ice-cream that weekend too

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