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Dried or fresh flowers, sometimes called "gum jum" or "golden needles" (Chinese: 金針; pinyin: jīnzhēn) or as huánghuācài (黃花菜, lit. ' yellow flower vegetable ' ) are used in Chinese cuisine for dishes including hot and sour soup , daylily soup (金針花湯), Buddha's delight , and moo shu pork .
The flower petals and young tubers can also be eaten raw in salads, stir-fried, or otherwise cooked. The petals seem to taste better when cooked, but can also be fried for storing, [21] or dried and used as a thickener in soups or sauces. [19] The cooked flower buds, served with butter, taste like green beans or wax beans. [22]
A daylily, day lily or ditch-lily is a flowering plant in the genus Hemerocallis / ˌ h ɛ m ɪ r oʊ ˈ k æ l ɪ s /, [2] a member of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, native to Asia. Despite the common name, it is not taxonomically classified in the lily genus.
The tables below include tabular lists for selected basic foods, compiled from United States Dept. of Agriculture sources.Included for each food is its weight in grams, its calories, and (also in grams,) the amount of protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, fat, and saturated fat. [1]
It is the state flower of Tamil Nadu state in India. [20] It was also designated as the national flower of the de facto state of Tamil Eelam by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , because it contains all the colours contained in the Tamil Eelam national flag and because it grows during November, coinciding with Maaveerar Naal .
Euryale ferox, commonly known as prickly waterlily, [3] makhana, or Gorgon plant, is a species of water lily found in southern and eastern Asia, and the only extant member of the genus Euryale. The edible seeds, called fox nuts or makhana , are dried, [ a ] and eaten predominantly in Asia.
The inflorescence bears 2–12 showy fragrant funnel-shaped flowers on a 'naked' (leafless) stem, which gives it the common name of naked-lady-lily. The pink flowers which may be up to 10cm in length, appear in the autumn before the leaves (hysteranthy) which are narrow and strap shaped. [4] [5]
Dianella caerulea, commonly known as the blue flax-lily, blueberry lily, [2] or paroo lily, [3] is a perennial herb of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, found across the eastern states of Australia and Tasmania. It is a hardy plant, growing to a height and width of around 1 meter with grass-like strappy leaves.