{"id":2939,"date":"2015-12-02T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2939"},"modified":"2023-12-17T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T15:25:45","slug":"edible-begonia-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2939","title":{"rendered":"Edible Begonias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1500999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2940 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1500999.jpg\" alt=\"P1500999\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1500999.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1500999-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Introducing my second Begonia mentioned in\u00a0a paper in Economic Botany (2003, 57, 48-53; Edible Begonias from the North of Puebla, Mexico) as being wild foraged as quelites (mixed leafy vegetables). They are collective known as\u00a0xocoyolis, meaning &#8220;sour heart&#8221;. Those who have eaten the flowers know that they taste sour.<\/p>\n<p>I reported on the first one, Begonia nelumbifolia (Xocoyolli), here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2112\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2112<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new one (picture) is\u00a0Begonia heracleifolia &#8216;Nigricans&#8217; (Hogweed-leaf Begonia or Pesoxocoyolli), so called as the leaves apparently resemble Heracleum or hogweeds (with a bit of imagination). \u00a0As with nelumbifolia (leaves like the sacred lotus, Nelumbo), this is a superb looking edimental house plant!<\/p>\n<p>Some are sold on markets.<\/p>\n<p>The petioles (leaf stalks) are peeled and boiled, although some people claim boiling destroys them and they should instead just be soaked in hot water.\u00a0They may be\u00a0added to boiling beans with the &#8220;tequelite&#8221;\u00a0(Peperomia spp) leaves, for preparing chili\u00a0beans, or they are fried with lard, or cooked with\u00a0eggs. The petioles can also be used as a substitute\u00a0for husk tomato (Physallis spp.) in the making<br \/>\nof some sauces. They are eaten year round.<\/p>\n<p>So, about time I had a go :) \u00a0The petioles of heracleifolia seem to be much smaller than nelumbifolia, so the latter is potentially the most useful. Heracleifolia is potentially more difficult to cultivate, sometimes going dormant. I lost the first one I tried.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still looking for B. fusca, B. incarnata, B. manicata and B. barkeri \u00a0as all are mentioned in the same article.<\/p>\n<p>Added 7th March 2018: Begonia heracleifolia is also a winter flowerer! Here it is today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810593.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16709 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810593.jpg\" alt=\"P1810593\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810593.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810593-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810594.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16710 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810594.jpg\" alt=\"P1810594\" width=\"800\" height=\"1180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810594.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810594-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810594-694x1024.jpg 694w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1810594-300x443.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing my second Begonia mentioned in\u00a0a paper in Economic Botany (2003, 57, 48-53; Edible Begonias from the North of Puebla, Mexico) as being wild foraged as quelites (mixed [&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-2939","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2939","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=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31866,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2939\/revisions\/31866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}