#1: Root Beer Plant
Posted on 2006-07-06 22:42:36 by Tom or Mary
Hoja Santa (Piper auritum) Root Beer Plant. I noticed that the local master
gardeners were growing this plant, but when I asked them if it would survive
the winter, and come back next week they did not know. I live in
Pittsburgh,PA was wondering if I planted it outside would it come back the
next year, or should I plant it in a pot, and bring it inside for the
winter. I noticed someone on a plant website said they were growing it in a
greenhouse in Indiana.
Thanks
Tom
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#2: Re: Root Beer Plant
Posted on 2006-07-07 00:28:25 by Philip Lewis
"Tom or Mary" <tombates@city-net.com> writes:
>Hoja Santa (Piper auritum) Root Beer Plant.
>Pittsburgh,PA was wondering if I planted it outside would it come back the
>next year, or should I plant it in a pot, and bring it inside for the
Hi Tom!
A google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%28%22Hoja+Santa%22++or+%22Pi per+auritum%22%29zone
Yielded several conflicting results: 10, 8b, 7.
We were zone 5/6 until recently, we'ce since been moved to 6a (IIRC)
so in all cases, we're too cold.
You *might* be able to get by if you had a southern exposure high heat
retention level microclimate (stone/brick wall sheltered from wind)
but I wouldn't count on it. Best bet is to pot it up and bring it in
in mid/late fall.
Where did you get it?
(sounds like a neat plant... and i like root beer. ;)
--
May no harm befall you,
flip (Ingram PA)
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#3: Re: Root Beer Plant
Posted on 2006-07-07 02:34:19 by Tom or Mary
I have not purchased it yet. If you live in the Pittsburgh area the plant I
saw is located in North Park at the corner of Ingomar and Babcock where the
cannon is across from the lake. It is planted in one of the flower beds, and
the sign says it was started from seed.
Tom
>
> Where did you get it?
> (sounds like a neat plant... and i like root beer. ;)
>
> --
> May no harm befall you,
> flip (Ingram PA)
> Ich habe keine Ahnung was das bedeutet, oder vielleicht doch?
> In my email replace SeeEmmYou.EeeDeeYou with CMU.EDU
>
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#4: Re: Root Beer Plant
Posted on 2006-07-07 06:39:51 by Travis.Shoreline
"Tom or Mary" <tombates@city-net.com> wrote in message
news:44ad5fd1$1$76287$4d5ecec7@reader.city-net.com
> Hoja Santa (Piper auritum) Root Beer Plant. I noticed that the
> local master gardeners were growing this plant, but when I
> asked
> them if it would survive the winter, and come back next week
> they
> did not know. I live in Pittsburgh,PA was wondering if I
> planted it
> outside would it come back the next year, or should I plant it
> in a
> pot, and bring it inside for the winter. I noticed someone on a
> plant website said they were growing it in a greenhouse in
> Indiana.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
Root beer is not made from this plant.
--
Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5
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#5: Re: Root Beer Plant
Posted on 2006-07-07 14:49:17 by Ether Jones
Travis M. wrote:
> Root beer is not made from this plant.
Nowadays, root beer is made from artificial flavor.
When it was made from a plant, that plant was the sassafras tree.
I've got about a hundred sassafras trees along the perimeter of my
property. We made root beer from them last summer. Just add dry ice
(for carbonation) and sugar.
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#6: Re: Root Beer Plant
Posted on 2006-07-10 21:18:03 by clc
"Tom or Mary" <tombates@city-net.com> wrote in message
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> Hoja Santa (Piper auritum) Root Beer Plant. I noticed that the local
> master
> gardeners were growing this plant, but when I asked them if it would
> survive
> the winter, and come back next week they did not know. I live in
> Pittsburgh,PA was wondering if I planted it outside would it come back the
> next year, or should I plant it in a pot, and bring it inside for the
> winter. I noticed someone on a plant website said they were growing it in
> a
> greenhouse in Indiana.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
Thank you, Tom, for providing me with the *real* name of this plant. I
bought one in the Spring at the UIs Horticulture Club Plant Sale, but it was
only labeled *Root Beer Plant*. I may try to take a start and leave part
outside (I do have a microclimate area in my garden) and bring the mother
inside.
Cheryl
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#7: Re: Root Beer Plant
Posted on 2006-07-10 21:50:37 by tracey
clc wrote:
> "Tom or Mary" <tombates@city-net.com> wrote in message
> news:44ad5fd1$1$76287$4d5ecec7@reader.city-net.com...
>
>>Hoja Santa (Piper auritum) Root Beer Plant. I noticed that the local
>>master
>>gardeners were growing this plant, but when I asked them if it would
>>survive
>>the winter, and come back next week they did not know. I live in
>>Pittsburgh,PA was wondering if I planted it outside would it come back the
>>next year, or should I plant it in a pot, and bring it inside for the
>>winter. I noticed someone on a plant website said they were growing it in
>>a
>>greenhouse in Indiana.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Tom
>
>
>
> Thank you, Tom, for providing me with the *real* name of this plant. I
> bought one in the Spring at the UIs Horticulture Club Plant Sale, but it was
> only labeled *Root Beer Plant*. I may try to take a start and leave part
> outside (I do have a microclimate area in my garden) and bring the mother
> inside.
>
> Cheryl
When I lived in Minnesota, I did an experiment one year. I had a few
plants that *should* have died over the winter but I stuck the pots
in a fairly protected area and surrounded them with garbage bags
full of leaves. All around and on top. The plants survived to
grow the next year. (IIRC, at least one a calla.)
Tracey
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