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Helianthus esculentus
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The Jerusalem artichoke, also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, topinambur, or earth apple, is a species of sunflower native to central North America. It is cultivated widely across the temperate zone for its tuber, which is used as a root vegetable.
- Family
- Asteraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Helianthus esculentus
- Slug
- helianthus-esculentus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Helianthus
- Species
- esculentus
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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