{"id":1378,"date":"2015-05-28T22:52:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1378"},"modified":"2015-09-18T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:06:01","slug":"the-tuberous-asparagus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1378","title":{"rendered":"The tuberous asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excited that Asparagus cochinchinensis, a tuberous rooted climbing asparagus found in\u00a0Japan (on seashores), China, Korea, Laos\u00a0and\u00a0Vietnam has germinated (sown early in 2014). In at least Japan and Korea the tubers are used as\u00a0food. The tubers are already very evident!<\/p>\n<p>Add (September 2015): I recently stumbled over a large plant of this species in the Medicinal Garden at the University of Washington Arboretum (it could have easily tripped me up!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1410548-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1410548\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1410548-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1410548.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1410548.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1410549-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1410549\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1410549-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1410549-300x392.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1410549.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2409\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2409 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450697-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1450697\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450697-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450697.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the University of Washington Medicinal Garden in Seattle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2410\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450696.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2410 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450696-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1450696\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450696-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450696-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450696-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P1450696.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the University of Washington Medicinal Garden in Seattle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excited that Asparagus cochinchinensis, a tuberous rooted climbing asparagus found in\u00a0Japan (on seashores), China, Korea, Laos\u00a0and\u00a0Vietnam has germinated (sown early in 2014). In at least Japan and Korea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1378","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1378\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}