Talk:Edible plant stems

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I am trying hard to stay away from Wikipedia for some time, but I feel strongly that this article should at least refer to root vegetable, category:root vegetables, and category:stem vegetables.

It should be noted that the existing articles and categories root vegetable, leaf vegetable, category:root vegetables, category:leaf vegetables, category:inflorescence vegetables, and category:vegetable-like fruits (which I would strongly like to rename to category:fruit vegetables), are explicitly concerned with a different taxonomy than is this article, more of a functional or folk taxonomy compared to the very strict anatomical taxonomy implied by the inclusion here of the fig. I believe that both systems represent interesting and informative generalizations, and I would like to see them well represented, by some combination of articles and categories, but I don't how that can best be done. The conversation at User talk:Marasek is relevant here.

As a side note, I believe this article should be moved to Edible plant stem in line with Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Lowercase second and subsequent words and Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Prefer singular nouns.

— Pekinensis 19:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Further suggestions

As I am trying to minimize the amount of editing I do, I will restrict my self to making suggestions here.

I believe the article would benefit from the use of == Section titles == rather than raw '''BOLD ALL-CAPS TEXT''', and from explicit lists instead of list items in individual paragraphs:

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Also, I believe there are two articles you were looking for at nopal and Nelumbo nucifera.

— Pekinensis 20:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Unable to restrain myself from editing Wikipedia, I have made these formatting changes. I have not addressed of the content issues mentioned above. — Pekinensis 18:58, 21 July 2005 (UTC)


Thank you for all the editing you have done. The page looks great! This was my first wiki posting and it was a requirement for a plant biology class, so learning all of the formatting tricks and techniques was much more than I could handle. However else you would like to improve upon the page, go ahead. I know you're trying to take a wikivacation, but why torture yourself??? Format away!

Shanghaidlily 16:16, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comments about Edible Plant Stems

Your page have interesting information especially I enjoyed reading "Detailed description of edible plant stems" part.

Since we used Celery (Apium graveolens) stems for our labs, how about adding this one to your page? Actually celery is edible for most parts, not just only stem though…. There is a page for celery in this Wikipedia pages. It is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celery May be you can take a look and decide if you want to include it.

Also, the common stems like bamboo shoot that we eat in Chinese restaurants can be added? I heard that is also part of stem…I found also bamboo page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_shoot

I was wondering, if you include radish or potato (root and stem edible part), there are probably endless items that have to be include into this “edible plant stem” section. As someone who wrote an advice before me, may be it is easier for later on if you categorize edible stems, root and stems, leaf and stems, and so on separately.

Good luck on your page!

-Sayako July 24th 2005

I believe that the most widely eaten part of celery is the petiole, not a stem in the strictest sense. This article seems to have been written with strictest sense in mind. I believe you are correct about bamboo. — Pekinensis 13:03, 25 July 2005 (UTC)


Thank you for your info. I recieved from the author about the celery and bamboo, too. The page looks improved, awesome! Good Luck!Sayako July 31 2005

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