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Parsnip are a tasty winter vegetable grown in warm and cool temperate climate community and home gardens.

Parsnip can be grown by cutting the end of the vegatable, allowing it to sprout, then planting it.

PARSNIP

Botanic name

• Pastinaca sativa

Family

• Apiaceae

Growth form

Parsnip is biennial – the plant produces the tuber in its first year, then flowers and produces seed in the second.

• tapering tuber
• white colouration
• there area number of varieties of parsnip that vary in size

Edible part

• tuber- eaten cooked

Cultivation

Propagation:

• from seed
• new plants can be sprouted by cutting of top of tuber, waiting until it sprouts, then planting

Centre of diversity

• Mediterranean region
• grown by ancient Roman and Greek civilisations.

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