Orange is the New Black

[seedcorn]

@majorcatfish yes, let me know if they are good and how to cook. Blooming well now.

@Lavender2 Thanks for link. Didn't inspire me to try-can give indigestion? No thanks

 

[digitS']

Yeah, I guess if you can't beat 'em, eat 'em... Mother Earth

That Mother Earth News author's blog has information that @journey11 may be interested in:

Plantain

I've watched a nice row of orange daylilies, planted about 15 years ago, fade out to just a couple. Part of the neighbor's near-wild area.

In his defense, his father planted them right across what neither of us realized at the time was once a dirt driveway. Not only did the daylilies compete with the lilac, rambling roses and honeysuckle nearby but there are 5 evergreens within 50'. I guess that was just too much even for daylilies.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

wow Steve yours is the first story I heard where they faded out.

 

[Lavender2]

After several years of our annual perennial trading party, we had to ask people not to bring any more orange daylilies. There would be bags and pots full of them and no one would take them. You would think, out of 150-200 gardeners that someone would need them.

 

[Lavender2]

@majorcatfish yes, let me know if they are good and how to cook. Blooming well now.

@Lavender2 Thanks for link. Didn't inspire me to try-can give indigestion? No thanks

I don't blame you @seedcorn , I have that trouble with a lot of foods also. I think I will get Dh to try them, cast iron stomach and picky palate, he will try anything, once.

 

[baymule]

Daylilly petals are pretty in a salad.

 

[Nyboy]

@catjac1975 posted more then once not all day lilies are edible. Would be my luck to serve to guest and have them end up in ER.

 

[Carol Dee]

@catjac1975 posted more then once not all day lilies are edible. Would be my luck to serve to guest and have them end up in ER.

oh- dear you are probably right! you do not have the best of luck with such things.

 

[catjac1975]

@catjac1975 posted more then once not all day lilies are edible. Would be my luck to serve to guest and have them end up in ER.

I do not remember doing that. However I don't know about eating them. I read yellow is the sweetest. I have seen a bread recipe that looks great. The tubers are edible and the flowers. My guess is all you get out of it is moisture and color. But here is what I know. Try to make this succinct and understandable.
Original diploid daylilies have 22 chromosomes. They are changed to tetraploid , or 44 chromosomes with various chemical treatments. The most common is using colchicine. Is is also medicine used for treating gout.The colchicine warning for being a potent carcinogen are very sobering. So here is what I do not know if you ingest a chemically treated daylily is there any danger? Now, the chemical is gone or minute in the altered plant but the process is a genetic mutation. So I am not knowledgeable enough in this to know if there is any danger.

 

[Jared77]

Orange is usually a warning color in nature. Monarch butterflies for example. I'd have a hard time taking a chance on those and I eat just about everything.

To me it's not worth it. We have a mess of them that came with the house. I'm still debating some gorilla gardening with them. Not much else to do with them.