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Ulluco tubers are marketed as " Earth Gems " in New Zealand, by Halfords Exotic Produce.
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Ulluco ( u: ju: kɔ :)( Ullucus tuberosus ) is a plant grown primarily as a root vegetable, secondarily as a leaf vegetable.
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In other countries where cereal grains are not among the principal crops of a region, starchy tubers or roots are processed for starch.
It includes perennial herbaceous plants which are glabrous and have short rhizomes with fibrous roots or are rhizomatous with root tubers.
Maize ( corn ), beans, rice, peanuts, cashews, pineapples, cassava, yams, and other various tubers are grown for local subsistence.
All new potato varieties are grown from seeds, also called " true seed " or " botanical seed " to distinguish it from seed tubers.
Confusingly, these tubers or tuber pieces are called " seed potatoes ".
Potatoes do not keep very well in storage and are vulnerable to molds that feed on the stored tubers, quickly turning them rotten.
Potatoes are generally grown from seed potatoes – these are tubers specifically grown to be disease free and provide consistent and healthy plants.
Since exposure to light leads to greening of the skins and the development of solanine, growers are interested in covering such tubers.
These are often harvested by the home gardener or farmer by " grabbling ", i. e. pulling out the young tubers by hand while leaving the plant in place.
Commercial storage of potatoes involves several phases: drying of surface moisture ; a wound healing phase at 85 % to 95 % relative humidity and temperatures below ; a staged cooling phase ; a holding phase ; and a reconditioning phase, during which the tubers are slowly warmed.
In western and coastal India, during weddings of the Marathi and Konkani people turmeric tubers are tied with strings by the couple to their wrists during a ceremony called Kankanabandhana.
Other types of storage organs ( such as corms, rhizomes, and tubers ) are sometimes erroneously referred to as bulbs.
Mashed sweet potato tubers are used similarly throughout the world.
They are omnivorous scavengers, eating almost anything they come across, including grass, nuts, berries, carrion, nests of ground nesting birds, roots, tubers, refuse, insects and small reptiles.
They are less effective on perennial plants, which are able to regrow from rhizomes, roots or tubers.
The species with underground rhizomes and tubers can be propagated from these while other species are best raised from seed.
Then the water and manioc are brought to the house, where the tubers are cut up and put in a pot to boil.
Cassava undergoes postharvest physiological deterioration, or PPD, once the tubers are separated from the main plant.
Amorphophallus konjac tubers are used to make, a Japanese thickening agent and edible jelly containing glucomannan.
These sugars are transported to non-photosynthetic parts of the plant, such as the roots, or into storage structures, such as tubers or bulbs.
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New tubers may arise at the soil surface.
New growth develops from living tissues remaining on or under the ground, including roots, a caudex ( a thickened portion of the stem at ground level ) or various types of underground stems, such as bulbs, corms, stolons, rhizomes and tubers.
These tubers are known as oca, from the Quechua words okka, oqa, and uqa ; New Zealand yam ; and a number of other alternative names.
150pxOther whitewater areas include Satan's Kingdom in New Hartford, Connecticut, which is popular with tubers, and the Crystal Rapids section in Collinsville and Unionville, Connecticut, which is about four miles ( 6 km ) of Class 1-3 training waters with a bicycle and pedestrian path on the right side of the river.
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Any potato variety can also be propagated vegetatively by planting tubers, pieces of tubers, cut to include at least one or two eyes, or also by cuttings, a practice used in greenhouses for the production of healthy seed tubers.
In the water food is obtained by up-ending or dabbling, and their diet is composed of the roots, tubers, stems and leaves of aquatic and submerged plants.
* Potato starch flour is obtained by grinding the tubers to a pulp and removing the fibre and protein by water-washings.
" The sweet manioc beer ( nihamanci or nijiamanchi ), is prepared by first peeling and washing the tubers in the stream near the garden.
The word glycine is derived from the Greek – glykys ( sweet ) and likely refers to the sweetness of the pear-shaped ( apios in Greek ) edible tubers produced by the native North American twining or climbing herbaceous yambean legume, Glycine apios, now known as Apios americana.
The plant reproduces mostly by means of rhziomes ( tubers, corms ) but it also produces " clusters of two to five fragrant inflorescenes in the leaf axils ".
As Matakerepō counts out her ten taro tubers, Tāwhaki removes them one by one.
Tāwhaki removes the taro tubers one by one, until Whaitiri realises that it must be her grandson who she had foretold would come to find her.
The village and a locally-run campground, Blodgett Landing, are located at the confluence of the Hersey, one of the best trout streams in the state, and the Muskegon river, enjoyed by canoers and tubers.
Hemerocallis fulva plus a number of Daylily hybrids have large root-tubers, H. fulva spreads by underground stolons that end with a new fan that grows roots that produce thick root tubers and then send out more stolons.
Root tubers, along with other storage tissues that plants produce, are consumed by animals as a rich source of nutrients.
Plants with root tubers are propagated in late summer to late winter by digging up the tubers and separating them, making sure that each piece has some crown tissue for replanting.
The soup generally contains chicken, a floating cracked raw egg that is stirred in by the eater, kamaboko, vegetables and tubers.
Infected tubers develop grey or dark patches that are reddish brown beneath the skin, and quickly decay to a foul-smelling mush caused by the infestation of secondary soft bacterial rots.
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Pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion.
Around 16, 000 BCE, from the Red Sea hills to the northern Ethiopian Highlands, nuts, grasses and tubers were being collected for food.
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In particular, bananas and tubers may have been cultivated as early as 25, 000 BP in southeast Asia.
In general, the tubers of varieties with white flowers have white skins, while those of varieties with colored flowers tend to have pinkish skins.
Potatoes yield abundantly with little effort, and adapt readily to diverse climates as long as the climate is cool and moist enough for the plants to gather sufficient water from the soil to form the starchy tubers.
In the third phase stolons develop from lower leaf axils on the stem and grow downwards into the ground and on these stolons new tubers develop as swellings of the stolon.
Tuber bulking occurs during the fourth phase, when the plant begins investing the majority of its resources in its newly formed tubers.
Commercial growers plant potatoes as a row crop using seed tubers, young plants or microtubers and may mound the entire row.
Potato tubers may be susceptible to skinning at harvest and suffer skinning damage during harvest and handling operations.
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