Some less common roots:
- Jerusalem artichokes
- Garlic mustard, alliaria: horseradish substitute
- Greater burdock, arctium lappa: boil as vegetable
- Pleurisy root, asclepias tuberosa: lung tonic
- Red valerian, centranthus: for soups
- Chicory: coffee substitute
- Tiger nuts: dessert/coffee
- Gentiana lutea: bitte tonic
- Bog bean, menyanthes: edible root
- Oca, oxalis tuberosa
- Evening primrose
- Common reed, oenathera
- Chinese artichoke
- Dandelion: coffee substitute
- Trapaeolum tuberosum
- Reed mace, typha latifolia, boiled or grated vegetable
- Skirret
- Yacon (very high yields, grow in warm climate, but survive some cold)
- Sweet potato
- Air potatoes (warm climates, tubers grow in branches)
Come later, as more species will be added in soon.
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| Oca is a peculiar and colorful tuber from South America |
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