[Mihalic] Comment on aupa

[Robin Hide]

a couple of points about aupa:

1.re: "cultivated"  - many (most?- espec dubious, lividus, tricolor and 
viridis acc to Knis, see below ) of these amaranths can also grow without 
being planted by people and are thus sometimes recorded as "weeds" (e.g. on 
plantations or on roadsides), or at least self-planted.

2. French has a typo (?reproduced by Risimeri- latter. I haven't seen); it 
should be A. viridis (not viridus) (and to be exact, dubiu  should be dubius.)

3. The botanist Kanis has a useful (up to mid 1970s)  account of the genus 
in the region -(Kanis, A. 1978. "Amaranthaceae." In: Womersley, J.S. ed. 
Handbooks of the Flora of Papua New Guinea. Melbourne, Melbourne University 
Press, 12-42.)

4. Some other amaranth species (e.g. A. spinosus) have been collected in 
NG, but I'm not sure if any are cultivated, and I dont know if they would 
be/are included in the term "aupa"

Robin


  At 01:48 PM 17/02/2006, you wrote:
>Risimeri (2002) cites French (1986) that there are 6 cultivated species of 
>aupa in PNG: Amaranthus caudatus, A. cruentus, A. dubiu, A. viridus, A. 
>lividus and A. tricolor.
>
>Jimmy Risimeri (2002). Status of Traditional Vegetables Conservation and 
>Use in Papua New Guinea - A Country Report. NARI Conference Paper Series 
>#5. Lae: National Agricultural Research Institute.
>
>French, B. R. (1986). Food Plants of Papua New Guinea: A Compendium. 
>Australia Pacific Science Foundation.
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