Re: Vietnamese Coriander

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From: Henriette Kress
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:17

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Curtis Seyfried <curtis.seyfried@verizon.net> wrote:
> post-1 @nospam.demon.co.uk says...
> > I bought this herb from a show recently.  It looks a bit weedy !
> > Could some one post some more information on this herb, or point
> > me in the right direction ?
> 
> Vietnamese coriander is just coriender LEAF, not the seed which most 
> people are used to.  Latino's use it also, but call it Cilantro

Nope.
Vietnamese coriander is Polygonum odoratum.
Coriander (and cilantro) is Coriandrum sativum.

More on this in the culinary herbfaq, here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/faqs/culi-2-8-corian.html
No pics of the Vietnamese one, sorry.

Cheers
Henriette

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Henriette Kress                                          Helsinki, Finland
Over 30 MB herbal .html files (FAQs, classic texts, articles, links), plus
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