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Arracacia xanthorrhiza
3-666.74.00English: White carrot.
Spanish: Arracacha; Racacha; Quechua raqacha; Apio; Apio criollo; Zanahoria blanca, means white carrot; Virraca.
Portuguese: Mandioquinha, meaning little cassava; Batata-baroa, meaning baroness potato; Batata-salsa, meaning parsley potato; Batata fiúza, meaning trustworthy potato; Cenourinha-branca, meaning little white carrot;
Cenourinha-amarela; cenoura-amarela, meaning little yellow carrot; Yellow carrot.
Genus: 41 species.
Region: South America, Andes.
Habitat: altitude of between 1,800 and 2,500 meters.
Content: carotenoid pigments, precursors to vitamin A.
Use: starchy root is popular for food, peeled, boiled, with a taste of delicate blend of celery, cabbage and roast chestnuts, in dumplings, gnocchi, pastries, soups, fried chips, biscuits, coarse flour.BotanyHerb, intermediate between the carrot and celery root; slow to mature; susceptible to viruses.
Root: starchy taproot, resembles fat short carrots; lustrous off-white skin; interior white, yellow, or purple.
Leaves: dark green to purple.
Spanish: Arracacha; Racacha; Quechua raqacha; Apio; Apio criollo; Zanahoria blanca, means white carrot; Virraca.
Portuguese: Mandioquinha, meaning little cassava; Batata-baroa, meaning baroness potato; Batata-salsa, meaning parsley potato; Batata fiúza, meaning trustworthy potato; Cenourinha-branca, meaning little white carrot;
Cenourinha-amarela; cenoura-amarela, meaning little yellow carrot; Yellow carrot.
Genus: 41 species.
Region: South America, Andes.
Habitat: altitude of between 1,800 and 2,500 meters.
Content: carotenoid pigments, precursors to vitamin A.
Use: starchy root is popular for food, peeled, boiled, with a taste of delicate blend of celery, cabbage and roast chestnuts, in dumplings, gnocchi, pastries, soups, fried chips, biscuits, coarse flour.BotanyHerb, intermediate between the carrot and celery root; slow to mature; susceptible to viruses.
Root: starchy taproot, resembles fat short carrots; lustrous off-white skin; interior white, yellow, or purple.
Leaves: dark green to purple.