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CHINESE ARTICHOKE

Botanic name

• Stachys affinis

Family

• Labiatae

Growth form

• annual
• stiff stem to around a metre grows from tuber

Edible part

• tuber

Cultivation

• propagated vegetatively from tuber
• planted in winter in warm temperate climates

Centre of diversity

• China
• recorded in Europe in 1882.

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