Rhizomes being plants that propagate roots sideways to create new root systems as a kind of communal entity.
And then I discovered recently that asparagus and cattails were rhizomes too, food as well as being used as well for medicinal purposes.
So I figured it might be smart to try to identify useful food rhizomes that would make food gardening a secondary medical effort as well. Why not get the most results from your physical efforts, right? Plus their colony propagation method would be helpful to gardeners with not as much time on their hands.
Well, Google isn't much of a friend here. It's like pulling teeth to get more than a short list. Wiki is not helpful either.
So I'm asking the herd here to throw in on this effort. So far I've also identified wasabi and bitter ginger as two more rhizome foods and realized they had medicinal value as well. The dual food and medicine trend continues and seems like a good avenue to keep investigating. I know there are plenty of rhizome plants that aren't foods, but the ones that are do seem to be medicinal as well, as far as this trend keeps showing. Maybe with a better listing and then some effort their viability and availability in the US then the gardeners here can add some dual use crops to their garden to get the most out of it.
I realize that once we get into the latter part about growing then this thread would be better served in the gardening section, but now I'm just looking for "foodie" help to help identify possibilities. I'll let a mod know when it seems a good time to move it to the gardening board.
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Rhizome food hunt
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