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The edible parts of a carrot is the taproot, and the green leaves are sometimes eaten as well.

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What part of a carrot plant makes food?

The part of the carrot that makes the sugars for the carrot plant is the leaves.


What part of a plant is a carrot?

the carrot is located under the earth attached to the leaves sprouting from the earth.


Where are carrot seeds found?

yes, carrot has a seed, there is also such thing a carrot seed essential oil! Hope this helps u! If you leave the carrots and do not harvest the crop then they will produce a mass amount of small white flowers which will pollinate and produce seed heads. The orange fleshy part of the carrot is just a storage organ for water and nutrients known as a tuberous root. So the seeds will come from the foliage above ground.


When you eat a carrot you are eating a plant's?

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in color, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot. It is a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia. It has been bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured edible taproot, but is still the same species.It is a biennial plant which grows a rosette of leaves in the spring and summer, while building up the stout taproot, which stores large amounts of sugars for the plant to flower in the second year. The flowering stem grows to about 1 m tall, with an umbel of white flowers.


What type of root system do the radish and carrot have?

The carrot plant's root system is a taproot

Related questions

What part of the carrot is edible?

The root of the carrot is what is eaten.


What part of plant is called a carrot?

root of the carrot plant is edible.


What is another word for carrot's root?

The edible part of a carrot is the taproot.


Are carrots with root hairs along the side edible?

Yes. The part of the carrot plant most people refer to as a "carrot" is actually the root, which is edible. The top of the carrot, referred to as carrot greens, are also edible.


Does a carrot grow on a root?

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable. The edible part is the root.


What part of the plant does carrots come from?

The root it is a root vegetable


What part of a carrot plant makes food?

The part of the carrot that makes the sugars for the carrot plant is the leaves.


What part of the carrot do you eat?

We eat the root of the carrot plant. most people eat only the root of the plant but the top of the plant the green leafy part is also edible and nutritious.


Is a cabbage a root vegetable?

No, cabbage is not classified as a root vegetable. The edible part grows above the ground. Although cabbage has roots, they are not the edible part. Such things as carrot and potato (where the edible parts grow under the ground) are classified as "root" vegetables.


Long orange edible root called?

carrot


What is the green part on the top of the carrot?

The green part on top of the carrot is referred to as carrot greens, which are edible. Carrot greens are coarse and grainy when eaten raw, and compare to celery. Some think they are too stringy to use, and have a bitter taste with a bit of sweetness. They are thought to have about the same nutritional value as the carrot root.


Which part of a carrot do people eat?

All of the carrot can be eaten but, if you eat the green leafy stuff at the top it may make you sick. Jewel Abdon