Pastinaca sativa
About
The parsnip is a root vegetable closely related to carrot and parsley, all belonging to the flowering plant family Apiaceae. It is a biennial plant usually grown as an annual. Its long taproot has light cream colored skin and flesh, and, left in the ground to mature, becomes sweeter in flavor after winter frosts. In its first growing season, the plant has a rosette of pinnate, mid-green leaves. If unharvested, it produces a flowering stem topped by an umbel of small yellow flowers in its second growing season, later producing pale brown, flat, winged seeds. By this time, the stem has become woody, and the taproot inedible.
- Family
- Apiaceae
How to use it
The parsnip is cultivated as a root vegetable, valued for its long, cream-colored taproot. It is grown as an annual crop, though it is biologically a biennial. If allowed to reach its second growing season, the plant produces a flowering stem with an umbel of small yellow flowers and flat, winged seeds, though the root is no longer usable at this stage.
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Gardening tip
To get the sweetest flavor from your parsnips, leave the taproots in the ground to mature until they have experienced winter frosts, and make sure to harvest them before they enter their second growing season when the root becomes woody and inedible.
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In the kitchen
The parsnip is a root vegetable featuring a long taproot with light cream-colored skin and flesh. For the best culinary results, allow the root to mature in the ground through winter frosts, which enhances its sweet flavor. Be sure to harvest it in its first growing season; if left to flower in its second season, the stem becomes woody and the taproot becomes inedible.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pastinaca sativa
- Slug
- pastinaca-sativa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Pastinaca
- Species
- sativa
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 40
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