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Perennial. Bog plant.
A single pair of smooth leaves are attached halfway up
the delicate stem. Petals white to pale pink, with darker pink veins. Needs full sun. Use root. Serve like potatoes.
These dainty heralds of spring form large colonies spreading underground by means of bulblike swellings just above the roots. The swellings, called corms, look like small new potatoes, and taste like chestnuts when boiled, earning at least two species the nickname Fairy Spuds. Gathering them is tedious, however, and it takes a great many to make a satisfying meal.
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Fairy Spuds
Come said the wind to the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows and we will play.
Put on your dresses scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone and the days grow cold.
- A Children's Song of the 1880's
Remove winter protective tree wrappings from fruit and deciduous tree trunks and tree guards from the base of trees on a cloudy day once the snow has melted.
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