{"id":1385,"date":"2015-05-29T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T07:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1385"},"modified":"2015-05-29T19:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T17:10:45","slug":"ashitaba-angelica-keiskei","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1385","title":{"rendered":"Ashitaba \/ Angelica keiskei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Angelica, endemic to the Japanese volcanic island \u00a0Hachijo, is unusual because of its yellow sap! There is a lot of interest around the purported medicinal properties of this plant, supposedly promoting longevity. See also\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashitaba<\/p>\n<p>I first came across this plant in 2004 when I was contacted by a Danish guy, Martin, interested in trying this plant in treating osteoporosis. \u00a0He wondered if I knew of a source of seed. After several failed attempts from different suppliers in Korea and Japan, Martin successfully ordered some seed from engei.net. \u00a0He sent me a packet to try. \u00a0The seed germinated spring 2004, I overwintered the resultant single plant in my cellar. It grew slowly and I think I overwintered again inside, not wanting to lose it. Here are a couple of pictures from 2006 when I was surprised to find that it had yellow sap. I don&#8217;t recall eating, probably the yellow sap put me off and put in doubt the correct identification (I found nothing about this sap at the time). I sadly lost it before it flowered&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of recipes here (use Googe Translate):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.town.hachijo.tokyo.jp\/tokusyuu\/kyoudo_ryouri\/html\/ashitaba1\/ahitaba.html\u00a0\">http:\/\/www.town.hachijo.tokyo.jp\/tokusyuu\/kyoudo_ryouri\/html\/ashitaba1\/ahitaba.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5136-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM5136\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5136-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5136-300x398.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5136.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5137-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM5137\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5137-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5137-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5137-300x398.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HPIM5137.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Angelica, endemic to the Japanese volcanic island \u00a0Hachijo, is unusual because of its yellow sap! There is a lot of interest around the purported medicinal properties of [&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-1385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385","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=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}