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Cichorium
Also called Chickory, Chicories And Endives
Cichorium is a genus of daisy-family plants that includes common chicory (C. intybus), grown for leaves, roots and blanched shoots, and true endive (C. endivia), grown as a salad green. Both are hardy, easy-to-grow plants that do best in cool weather and full sun.
Cichorium is a genus of plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. The genus includes two cultivated species commonly known as chicory or endive, plus several wild species.
Common chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a bushy perennial herb with blue or lavender (or, rarely, white or pink) flowers. It grows as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America, where it has become naturalized. It is grown for its leaves, when it is known as leaf chicory, endive, radicchio, Belgian endive, French endive, or witloof. Other varieties are grown for their roots, which are used as a coffee substitute, similar to dandelion coffee.
Cultivated endive · Belgian endive · Chicory · Wild Endive · Spiny Chicory
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