SAVE YOUR SEEDS – Carrot

Paucus carota var. sativus – daucus is Latin for carrots and karoton the Greek word for wild carrots.

ORIGINS

Native to many regions, including parts of Europe, northern Africa, Afghanistan and central Asia. First used as medicine, carrots come in many colours. Purple carrots arrived in Western Europe from the Middle East in the Middle Ages. After considerable selection, these evolved into yellow ones, and it wasn’t until much later that a mutation which had the orange pigment appeared.

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