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[42itous]

Is rhubarb supposed to flower? Can I eat the stalk that the flower is growing on?

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[42itous.livejournal.com]

I found my own answers.
http://33barefootlane.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/edible-rhubarb-flower-heads/
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/rhubarbflowers.html

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i hope it flowers, else, how can it have sex?

as for eating it? the ancient memory of my father's and mother's comes up blank.

though there's still time to find tender shoot of japanese knotweed. that's worth eating :) lemony rhubarb taste.

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[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

Huh! Our rhubarb has never flowered. And not just because we eat it all before it has a chance to, either.