{"id":32427,"date":"2024-07-09T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=32427"},"modified":"2024-07-09T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T10:55:51","slug":"toad-lilies-great-edientomentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=32427","title":{"rendered":"Toad lilies: great edientomentals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Toad lilies (<em>Tricyrtis<\/em> sp.) are great edientomentals from the Far East; i.e. both food for us to eat (the edi bit), eye food (the mental bit ;) ) and food for the pollinators like bumble bees (the ento bit).<br \/>I&#8217;ve been meaning to try to research this genus properly for many years ever since I ate the young shoots 10 years ago (it tasted mild and good).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried 10+ species over the years, but only the early flowering species thrive (<em>Tricyrtis latifolia<\/em> is I think the most successful of the two). Bumble bees love them too as can be seen in the video below!<br \/>Below the pictures is an overview of how different species <em>Tricyrtis<\/em> are used in Japan. It indicates that the flowers can also be used at least in moderation for decoration, so I must give it a go!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-32427-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bumblebee_on_Tricyrtis.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bumblebee_on_Tricyrtis.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bumblebee_on_Tricyrtis.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32443\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/320936642_4728725520585292_6293300823645476178_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/320936642_4728725520585292_6293300823645476178_n.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/320936642_4728725520585292_6293300823645476178_n-300x259.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/320936642_4728725520585292_6293300823645476178_n-768x662.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/320936642_4728725520585292_6293300823645476178_n-640x552.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32442\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32442 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/322397227_885800605877639_7922193047585347661_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/322397227_885800605877639_7922193047585347661_n.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/322397227_885800605877639_7922193047585347661_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Blanched perennial veggies eaten on 14th May 2012 were dandelion, Crambe cordifolia , Cicerbita alpina, Lovage, Horseradish, Hosta, Sonchus arvensis, Allium tuberosum, Silene vulgaris, Heracleum maximum and Tricyrtis (latifolia)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Tricyrtis in the kitchen<\/strong><\/em><br \/>All I have so far is that 6 or 7 species are listed in my comprehensive Japanese foraging book (in Japanese): Wild Food Lexicon (Japan) and this is what it says (there are no warnings of possible toxicity and it encourages the reader to get and grow a couple of the species):<br \/><em>Tricyrtis latifolia<\/em> (Tamagawa hototogisu)<br \/>Eat young shoots. You can eat other types of Tricyrtis so don\u2019t worry if you make a mistake. Rest assured. You can pick it even if the stems are long, you can pick the soft young shoots until they bloom.<br \/>Boil in hot water with a pinch of salt, then rinse in cold water. In boiled food, soup, tempura\u2026<br \/><em>Tricyrtis macropoda<\/em><br \/>It can be eaten like Tamagawa hototogisu, but the ones with a lot of hairs have an inferior taste.<br \/><em>Tricyrtis macrantha<\/em><br \/>Boiled soup. For tempura etc. It has a crisp texture. Boil briefly, soak in cold water, boil, cut into small pieces and season with mustard. The young shoots are the most flavourful amongst the hototogisu.<br \/><em>Tricyrtis macranthopsis<\/em><br \/>Seedlings for cultivation are on the market. You can grow it and use it as food.<br \/>Around May, pick young shoots that grow diagonally. Even those with long stems can be eaten by picking the soft part at the tip of the stem.<br \/><em>Tricyrtis perfoliata<\/em><br \/>Young shoots are \u201chard\u201d? in quality. Floating the flowers in the soup and enclosing them in jelly will make them beautiful. Get it, grow it and taste it!!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Toad lilies (Tricyrtis sp.) are great edientomentals from the Far East; i.e. both food for us to eat (the edi bit), eye food (the mental bit ;) [&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":[225,3143,1355],"tags":[2702,153,4872,76,5090,5052,510,5088,3425,5089],"class_list":["post-32427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edible-flowers","category-edientomental","category-perennial-vegetables","tag-den-spiselige-hagen","tag-edimentals","tag-flerarige-gronnsaker","tag-japan","tag-paddeliljer","tag-prydsaker","tag-the-edible-garden","tag-toad-lilies","tag-tricyrtis","tag-wild-food-lexicon"],"views":1592,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427","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=32427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32449,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions\/32449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}