Parsnips, a relative of the carrot, come in different varieties with different qualities to add to your dinner table.
All AmericaThe All America parsnip is one that is going to have white flesh and a small inner core. While it might be smaller, this means it has a richer flavor. The roots of the All America are about 1 foot long. This variety will be ready to harvest in 120 days.
Harris ModelThe Harris Model parsnip has 10 to 12-inch long roots and the white flesh doesn't have many roots that branch off. Sweet and thick, the Harris Model is one that will be ready to harvest in 120 days, though waiting until after the first frost intensifies the sweetness.
Hollow CrownThe Hollow Crown parsnip has roots up to one foot long and is tapered from top to bottom. The parsnip is free of roots and this parsnip is ready to harvest in 105 days. Its flesh is whitish and the outside can be a faint brown color.
The different kinds of parsnips may not vary much in taste or appearance, but they offer a stronger flavor than carrots, making them a worthy addition to recipes.
these aren't all the varietes ,but this should help to give you some idea
Check the link in related links. It lists various types of red sweet potatoes such as :
Okinowa Sweet Potatoes
Georgia Jet
The Garnett Sweet Potato
Beauregard Sweet Potato
Jewell Sweet Potato
For potatoes in general, there are over 5000 varieties. Of sweet potatoes about 1000 varieties
Yes there is. There are a number of varieties of sweet potatoes other than the familiar deep orange.
Sweet potato reproduces by roots that can grow into new sweet potatoes. -Note that the reproduction methods of the sweet potato and potato are different.
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Yams are from Africa. Sweet potatoes are different.
I am aware other tuber sweet and the vine type. I was served a very sweet potato, by A Peruvian lady. It is a little sweet and different in texture
In recognition of her achievement in the development and selection of white potato varieties which are recommended varieties for the highlands; maintenance and evaluation of local sweet potato, taro and yam land races in the Cordilleras; and the preservation of indigenous knowledge in the highlands.
Like all potatoes they are native to Peru. There is know way of knowing when they were first grown since there are many purple potato varieties among the hundreds of different potato varieties that were first developed in Peru. When you buy from seed catalogs there is usually a blurb telling you about the history of the particular potato you have chosen.
no a sweet potato is a tubers
Sweet potato is a fibrous root because the potato itself is the root.
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