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In article <ahuqas$vtg5g$1@ID-28693.news.dfncis.de>, 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 ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

Vietnamese coriander is just coriender LEAF, not the seed which most 
people are used to.  Latino's use it also, but call it Cilantro

On 27 Jul 2002 18:55:25 GMT, al <post-1@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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 ?
>
>Thanks.

Do a google check. It's Polygonum odoratum. There's been lots on it here and in
rec.gardens.edible (maybe also rec.cooking) in the past.

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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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>> 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

No it isn't, it's a completely different species; tastes and smells
nothing whatever like coriander/cilantro.  The leaves look like small
coleus leaves (bicoloured) and taste hot and peppery.

Temperamental thing to grow up here, either indoors or out, but you
can't buy the leaf in shops so that's the only option.  The answer
is possibly just to buy a lot of plants to compensate for its poor
productivity.

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On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:17:42 +0300, Henriette Kress
<spamtrap.hetta@saunalahti.fi> wrote:

>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.

Oops, I forgot to reference that when I suggested the google search, and I'm
the one who wrote it for the FAQ!  

I could go out and take a nice pic of *culantro* for the FAQ, Henriette, if you
need it. I don't have any Polygonum going right now, but I will in a few
months, and I can take a pic then. Off topic, in the great 'curry plant'
controversy, I have to update the pic of the Murraya on my website, it's five
feet tall now, and was just a six-inch sprout -- let me know if you need that
pic, too.


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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 09:23:31 +0200, "maison.mousse" <maison.mousse@wanadoo.fr>
plagerized once again:

>:Polygonum odoratum

Too bad poor ol' James Lumpkins has to constantly cut and paste
perfume-oriented information, since he has no realworld experience with herbs,
his main pasttime being limited to trolling and flaming in this herb newsgroup.
(for those on the england.rec.gardening group, I have snipped his plagerized
'info'.)

Some more information about the Polygonum that I know from actually having used
it, knowing and liking the plant: my ethnobotany professor said the Buddhist
monks use it as an anaphrodisiac, since it is supposed to tone down the male
libido.  It is known in Vietnamese as rau ram.

The Vietnamese typically pair it with eggs. I make a yummy vinegar with it that
I sprinkle on lots of different foods. I may get some today at the Viet grocery
and take a pic. It looks like a pale green 'Wandering Jew' plant, (Transcendica
spp., if you are familiar with that), with very tiny leaves, most under 1/2
inch in length. It grows like a lowgrowing groundcover, and likes semi-shady
moist conditions, up to 6-12 inches high.

This thread has reminded me I haven't had any of this yummy herb for a few
months, so I hope they have it at the store today.


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In <9697@purr.demon.co.uk>,
bogus address <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote:

*
*>> 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
*
*No it isn't, it's a completely different species; tastes and smells
*nothing whatever like coriander/cilantro.  The leaves look like small
*coleus leaves (bicoloured) and taste hot and peppery.

Hmm. Last year I grew both coriander/cilantro (you know, the stuff that 
looks like flat-leaf parsley) and Vietnamese cilantro. No one at my dinner 
parties over the summer was ever able to tell the difference from a blind 
taste test, although one of my brothers-in-law was able to tell the 
difference when he felt the cut leaves in his fingers! He said the 
Vietnamese version felt slipperier.

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It looks like a pale green 'Wandering Jew' plant, (Transcendica
spp., if you are familiar with that), with very tiny leaves, most under 1/2
inch in length.

Wonder if you have a different strain, the leaves in mine are 3 to 4 inches
long, and this is without feeding..


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"david" <david@abacusnurseries.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> It looks like a pale green 'Wandering Jew' plant, (Transcendica
> spp., if you are familiar with that), with very tiny leaves, most
> under 1/2 inch in length.

Don't you mean Tradescantia?  "Wandering Jew" can be several different
unrelated species, I think.

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I grew this in a large but shallow container last year and found it very
vigorous - though it needs lots of water.  A tiny bit snipped in a salad is
good, and is fine in stir fries.  Apparently perennial, but not in our
climate - mine succumbed to a light frost in November and that was that.
Very obviously belongs to the dock family.

daniel

"david" <david@abacusnurseries.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ai9ckv$fae$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
> It looks like a pale green 'Wandering Jew' plant, (Transcendica
> spp., if you are familiar with that), with very tiny leaves, most under
1/2
> inch in length.
>
> Wonder if you have a different strain, the leaves in mine are 3 to 4
inches
> long, and this is without feeding..
>
>
> --
> David Hill
> Abacus Nurseries
> www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk
>
>
>

I must point out that this first part was a quote from the original question

"""> It looks like a pale green 'Wandering Jew' plant, (Transcendica
> spp., if you are familiar with that), with very tiny leaves, most under
1/2  inch in length."""

Vietnamese Coriander is infact Polygonum odoratum and does best in wet
shaded places.

It is not related to Dock which have deep tap roots and are as tough as old
boots.
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Abacus Nurseries
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