Cassava???

[Frankie Stapleton]

Thnx, Carey. I'll be going thru Keaau tomorrow (Tuesday) and will write myself a note (gotta these days!) to run by your place for some cuttings. Will you be around mid-afternoon? Anything I can bring you? I've got lots of dancing ladies (popcorn orchids) starts, if you'd like. Mahalo, Frankie

[Carey]

Frankie, I have a dreadfully long class Tuesday afternoons :~(

I can always cut some & wrap them in wet newspaper & hang a bag on the fence for you ....

So stop on by, email or call if you need directions....

[maud gonne]

It sounds like the varieties that posters are growing are sweet cassava, which is good, as bitter cassava or manioc can be toxic when eaten raw, and needs a great deal of cooking or processing to be safely edible. We unwittingly unearthed some huge manioc tubers on our land but found they were the toxic kind and I'd rather not have to deal with the cooking, so it's good to know that the sweet cassava thrives in Hawai'i.

[Frankie Stapleton]

Thanx, Carey, for the cassava! And how nicely you wrapped them. You're a doll! Mahalo, Frankie

[Carey]

Glad you got them!
I had a neighbor come by while I was trimming them & wanted some of our giant lilkoi leaves for medicine.... Who knew!

[Frankie Stapleton]

Did you ask what and how they use the leaves?

[Carey]

I thought about that right after they left! looked it up online late last night - seem to be for diabetes....as are a lot of the odder things growing in our yard....

[durian]

According to ECHO, sweetness and bitterness are not reliable indicators of cyanogenic compounds in the cassava. In Belize, all my neighbors had hundreds of pounds of it in the ground yr round as a sort of back up food. No one ate much of it, prefering the more nutritious sources of starch.

[Shekelpal]

The greens of cassava are excellent. Added to coconut milk and spices, boiled for a while, not covered because it would curdle the coco milk. I add it to pasta sauce as well. Also good is very thinly sliced noni leaf added to sauces.

[Carey]

I have some cassava branches that came down with the winds this weekend.

If anyone wants to try planting branch pieces from the plants I gave Mitzi,(this really is a "stick it in the ground & it roots" type crop) I have some branches in Keaau town that are up for grabs....

email if you need phone or directions, otherwise call & 'come on down'!