Cichorium intybus
Wild Chicory, Wild Succory, Chicory, Belgium Endive, Blue Sailors, Bunk Chicory, Chickory, Coffee Chicory, Coffeeweed, Common Chicory, French Endive, Hindiba, Succory, Witloof, Belgian Endive, Radicchio, Blowball, Blue Dandelion, Blue Weed, Bunk, Wild Chickory, Siocaire
Description
A vegetable grown for food, prized for its leaves or, more generally, for its head – which varies in texture from crisp to tender – and whose flavour has notes of bitterness or sweetness. It is commercially available in a wide range of varieties, such as Catalogna, puntarelle and radicchio.
Easy to grow, it prefers a full-sun position in well-drained soil and watering carefully tailored to its needs, particularly during the summer months.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Cichorium
- Species
- Cichorium intybus
