{"id":18770,"date":"2018-08-06T22:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18770"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:05:50","slug":"balloon-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18770","title":{"rendered":"Balloon flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Platycodon grandiflorus<\/em> (balloon flower), an important vegetable in the Far East, is just starting to flower in the garden. In Korea, it is<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0called doraji. Its root, either dried or fresh, is used in salads and traditional cooked dishes. Young leaves are also used.<br \/>\nSee also this video from a doraji farm in Korea:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F7OA9AsZAs0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F7OA9AsZAs0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18771 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P1850792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P1850792.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P1850792-300x270.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P1850792-768x690.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18772 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P1850794.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P1850794.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P1850794-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P1850794-768x572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower), an important vegetable in the Far East, is just starting to flower in the garden. In Korea, it is\u00a0called doraji. Its root, either dried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3161,3159,76,77,3160],"class_list":["post-18770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-root-crops","tag-balloon-flower","tag-campanulaceae","tag-japan","tag-korea","tag-platycodon-grandiflorus"],"views":3610,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=18770"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29513,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions\/29513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}