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The fully grown potatoes are used for planting and growing even more potatoes. Cut your seed potatoes into one to two-inch chunks, making sure that each piece has at least one eye, or dimpled area ...
Bistorta officinalis. Bistorta officinalis (synonym Persicaria bistorta), known as bistort, common bistort, European bistort, or meadow bistort, is a species of flowering plant in the dock family Polygonaceae native to Europe and northern and western Asia. [1] Other common names include snakeroot, snake-root, snakeweed, and Easter-ledges.
Bistorta officinalis (Persicaria bistorta), native to Europe Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Bistorta bistortoides plants generally grow to 10–51 centimetres (4–20 inches) tall. [2] Individuals growing above 2,250 metres (7,380 feet) are smaller, seldom reaching more than 30 cm (12 in) in height. The leaves are leathery and 2.5–10 cm (1–4 in) long, [2] being mostly basal on the stem.
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These potatoes also have coloured skin, but many varieties with pink or red skin have white or yellow flesh, as do the vast majority of cultivated potatoes. The yellow colour, more or less marked, is due to the presence of carotenoids. Varieties with coloured flesh are common among native Andean potatoes, but relatively rare among modern varieties.
Persicaria is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the knotweed family, Polygonaceae. Plants of the genus are known commonly as knotweeds [ 2 ] : 436 or smartweeds . [ 3 ] It has a cosmopolitan distribution , with species occurring nearly worldwide.