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Edible shoveler duck
Ground almond

Edible shoveler duck, ground Almond,

Family:

Origin:

Mediterranean circumference

Period of flowering:

summer

Color of the flowers:

cream

Exhibition:

sun

Type of ground:

rich person in humus, light

Acidity of the ground:

neutral

Moisture of the ground:

expenses, wet

Use:

border water

Height:

from 30 to 50 cm

Type of plant:

vegetable-root

Type of vegetation:

long-lived

Type of foliage:

persisting

Rusticity:

frost susceptible

Plantation, repotting:

spring for a harvest in autumn

Method of multiplication:

splitting of the rhizomes in spring

Cut:

50 cm

Interesting species, varieties:

The kind understands more than 500 species
- the standard species

Diseases and harmful insects:

plant louses

Toxicity:

edible tubers

The ground almond is the tuber of a species of papyrus. It is an old vegetable, primarily cultivated nowadays in Spain. It can be consumed believed or roasted with aperitif or out of salad.

Plant your tubers which you will have taken care to let soak 48 H in lukewarm water to soften their barks, from April at May. Plant to them in seed holes from 2 to 4 tubers by separating them from 40 cm from/to each other on lines apart 60 cm. Sprinkle very regularly especially in period of dryness.

Harvest is done at the end of October with the beginning of November by tearing off the tufts and by recovering the tubers which you will preserve at the expenses.

Did you know?

  • The shoveler duck is used to prepare a Spanish drink called “ of ”. is its name in Spain.

  • The edible powder shoveler duck is used to replace almonds in pastry makings

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