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  • From: Sharon Gordon <gordonse@one.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [permaculture] Looking for arracacha, maca & melloco sources
  • Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:51:14 -0500

Title: Looking for arracacha, maca & melloco sources

 
-Arracacia xanthorrhiza, Arracacha
[Sharon Gordon] 
Try ECHO http://www.echonet.org/tropicalag/aztext/azch12ec.htm 
 
-Ulluco tuberosus,  Melloco.
[Sharon Gordon] 
Maybe Ullucus tuberosus
And I'd ask ECHO again
http://www.echonet.org/tropicalag/technotes/HighAlti.pdf
 
-Lepidum meyerii, Maca.
[Sharon Gordon] 
Also try the spelling Lepidum meyernii (n instead of r) or botanists think what may be available now is L. peruvianum.
I'd try ECHO again, focusing on the same resources as for the Melloco.
Or you might see if some grocery stores that carry less common South American Vegetables might carry the tubers
and you could get several untrimmed ones, replant and collect the seeds.  Jungle Jims in Ohio is one that orders in lots of unusual
produce from all over the world.  Much is replantable. http://www.junglejims.com/  Harry's in Atlanta might be another
source.  Other people might have ideas for similar CA, FL, or NY grocery stores.  Sometimes you can find people at
the appropriate country's embassy around DC who can tell you where they grocery shop for the items.

also
-"Mandarin Melon Berry"(TM)
"... from the swampy Yangtze deltas on China's east coast..."
[Sharon Gordon] 
Edible Landscaping has it, see under names Cudrania tricuspidata, Che, Chinese Che, Chinese Mulberry, Cudrang, Mandarin Melon Berry, Silkworm Thorn
http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/Plants/che.html 
Getting ones that is grafted onto Osage Orange prevents thorn laden suckers.  The male ones rarely set fruit.  The standard
strategy is to plant and male and female together and then prune so you have 75% female, 25% male.  Though maybe EL
has grafted both onto the same plant.
 
Looks like your garden is going to have a lot of fun things in it.
 
Sharon
gordonse@one.net



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