EXPERIMENTS WITH UDO. 
EARLY EXPERIMENTS WITH UDO. 
Siebold and Zuccarini, 1 in their Flora of Japan, called special 
attention as long ago as 1835 to the good qualities of the udo as a 
"vegetable and recommended it for introduction into Europe, with 
Fig. 6. — Flowers and fruit of the udo. Tbe flowers are visited throughout the season by 
honeybees and flies, and the dark fruit clusters are ornamental. 
the remark that " the young shoots form a delicious vegetable," as 
follows : 
This plant probably came from China, where it is employed as a sudorific; 
it is cultivated throughout Japan in the gardens and as a field culture. 
Siebold and Zuccarini. Flora Japonica, vol. 1, p. 57, 1S35. 
