Purple Haze Carrot

Daucus Carota

Description:

This carrot used to grow in the Netherlands. It tasts a bit more earthy then carrots we know nowadays.

Habitat:

Garden for 'old fashioned' vegetables

2 Species ID Suggestions

LarsKorb 12 years ago

Scorzonera Scorzonera

Jeannette 12 years ago

Purple Haze Carrot

Daucus Carota Carrot Seeds | Parsnip Seeds | Vegetable Seeds | Vegetables | Thompson & Morgan

9 Comments

Helena K 12 years ago

Weird

Jeannette 12 years ago

I am actually not sure when they started making hybrids, I will look that up another day...

sttweets 12 years ago

@Lars, it's no Schwarzwurzel, da bin ich sicher.
Jeannette is right with the Purple haze, and it seems a hybrid indeed. I didn't realize experiments like these where done ages ago as well.

Jeannette 12 years ago

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetable...

LarsKorb 12 years ago

Schwarzwurzel? (ger.)

sttweets 12 years ago

@Jeannette, I think you're right again on the specie, but I wonder whether it's an F1 hybrid. If it is, it has been 'developed' long ago, I mean like at least a hundred years.
I'll dig into that!

Jeannette 12 years ago

I think it's Purple Haze, which is a F1 Hybrid and not heirloom :)

ceherzog 12 years ago

Carrots do come in many colors, including purple, yellow & black...they have that inner orangy color. I grew multi-colored carrots with my students one year.