Calvin Ross Sperling field notebooks, 1980-1984
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5305 Ullocus tuberosus 1/1 Cultivated in mixed planting with, Vicia faba. plants 4 month old. Just starting to produce tubers. Tubers long slightly curved - white with occasional light pink dots. Flowers yellow. one flower seen with 6 stamens. 5306 Tropaeolum 1,1,1 flowers orange. a few plant mixed with ullocus. tubers cream yellow, long 8 3450m 1 km w of Tisaleo 5307 Ullocus tuberosus 4 1/1 plants being harvested, tubers white much fewer white plants cultivated than red. 10 mo. old sold in markets in Quayagil, mashed & fried in tortilla -plants lighter colored than red tuber ones these with old inflorescences apparent. on red plants of same age none present. These also with more thin aerial sdolons