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Eli ([personal profile] eub) wrote2008-10-04 07:00 pm

booknotes: Heiser, Nightshades

13 - unfortunately a time came when he could no longer get enough adrenal glands to carry on with his work

30 - other edible tubers: Oxalis (oca), Tropaeolum (a\~nu, mashua), ulluca (related to Malabar spinach)

33 - Apios americana, "potato bean". [may become invasive.]

39 - "How to Spend a Nice Quiet Evening with a Potato" [excerpt http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~braselto/readings/potato.html]

43 - potato fruit is a berry, not unlike a small unripe tomato

103 - "wonderberry" not S. nigrum and probably not Burbank's claimed hybrid; possibly = "msoba" found (native?) in Africa?

115 - S. quitoense, lulo, naranjilla. [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/naranjilla_ars.html]

142 - the 12 trisomic conditions of D. stramonium