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Edible Flower Buds:
Without one or other of these, regional cookery would be much less interesting.
Plants such as celery (Apium graveolens) and sea-kale (Crambe maritima) are cultivated for their blanched stems. The young stems of Asparagus officinalis [2] are considered a particular delicacy. Rhubarb (Rheum rhaponicum) [2] is another stem vegetable of commercial importance in temperate countries. The globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus) is cultivated for its edible flower buds - as well as its looks.In general, a fruit has come to be known the edible and usually succulent portion of certain trees, shrubs, woody vines, and herbaceous perennials. While the essential association with flower development is perhaps taken for granted it is more often a distinction on the basis of use which, in the popular mind, constitutes a fruit. Yet in any technical discussion of North American fruits, edible nuts such as pecans and walnuts are usually included. Even the tung nut which is nonedible and in fact poisonous to humans is included in reference books on fruit growing.
Mentzelia Linleyi was to occupy this spot in the lineup. All refer- ences say that it opens at night. For three years I searched for viable seed and finally this summer managed to grow three plants that were promptly moved, after frost danger was past, to the night garden. Buds swelled ... I waited. Then one morning in early July, they) bloomed. Note, one morning. Day after day I waited for just one j flower to open at dusk, or even in the late afternoon. No luck. Thej books are wrong. Well, not all the books. William Robinson, in his j classic The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds, just calls it 'A j showy golden-flowered hardy annual."
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