Which daylilies are edible?
Last year (or the year before) I discovered daylilies were edible. That got me researching daylilies, which started the daylily madness that enveloped my life last summer (and is already beginning to again, even though spring has barely begun).
I can't seem to get a solid answer, though, on just which daylilies are safe to eat. I've heard some hybridizers say they have eaten their daylilies (though they didn't specify which ones and I didn't ask at the time), I've heard others caution against it, and I've heard some say they haven't eaten any but that they would.
My own thought, based on nothing more than the fact that daylilies are supposed to be edible and the fact that tetraploids aren't naturally-occurring (chemical induced somewhere along the lines), is that diploid varieties are safe to eat, but tetraploid daylilies are probably riskier or toxic on some level.
Today I dug up an old article on ATP that was excellent:
http://garden.org/ideas/view/S...
...although the author wasn't entirely sure about the safety of hybrid daylilies.
Thoughts? Experiences?
Does anyone have any novel recipes for daylilies? (Something other than frying them in butter and flavoring with garlic or other Italian herbs.) If you cook with the buds, do you fish out the anthers and stamen before cooking or eating, or do you leave the bud intact to eat it?
I would love to hear from people who have actually eaten daylilies. (Do any of you know anyone who has had an allergic reaction or upset stomach from eating daylilies?)
