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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: greenstar on April 06, 2008, 20:48:48
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Does anyone have any experience of growing this herb? I have sown a few seeds, but the seedlings look very spindly, and not like a plant that's supposed to grow to over a metre tall. Is this normal? And how many plants would you advise to grow? The instructions that came with the seeds from Realseeds say that you only require a leaf or two in any dish.
Any info that anyone has on this plant would be very welcome - thanks.
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hello greenstar, my wife who is south american calls coriander by that name!
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Apparently in South Africa it is used like coriander, but is in fact a completely different plant.
Does she grow it by any chance David?
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no she doesnt, she cant stand it ::).
The mother in law came over for the birth of our first and so i decided to take her for a curry (well what better introduction to England!). The various dishes were decorated with coriander leaf and it was her mother who told me it was quillquina - i just assumed it was their word for coriander. My wife calls coriander that, but as she doesnt eat it she probably also doesnt realise its a different plant.
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Grew up in South Africa and never heard of it. I thought it was something more used in South America.
Maybe Casey Lee or Jitterbug or Marie59 might know or remember it from SA!!
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Oops, meant to say South America not South Africa. I'm mixing up my continents.
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No experience, but just sown my first few seeds (rather more than a couple!)