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Cardoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cardoon: all about home-growing it. ... Our eating experience with store-bought cardoon (a relative of artichokes grown for its stem) has not been good, but there are so many descriptions of eating home-grown that are are so mouth-watering that it is a temptation.
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I wasn't surprised to read this, because when I was in the US in the winter of 1996, preparing my translation of Pellegrino Artusi's La Scienza in Cucina for publication there wasn't a single cardoon to be found in any of the Philadelphia supermarkets, despite the weather's being perfect for them.
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Browse pictures and read growth / cultivation information about Cardoon, Artichoke Thistle (Cynara cardunculus) supplied by member gardeners in the PlantFiles database at Dave's Garden. ... I decided to grow cardoon from seed, as I was intrigued by its long history and by the idea that it tastes "artichokey". We did not...
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Cardoon is similar to the globe artichoke. With cardoon the young tender leaves and undeveloped tender flower stalks are eaten rather than the flower bud. The thistle-like cardoon plant grows to a height of 3-5 feet and spreads over an area 6 feet in diameter.
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Looking for cardoon recipes that are new and unusual -- and I come up with a particularly good one with honey, pine nuts and thyme. ... As for the cardoon, well, it is the stalk you eat. And wild cardoon stalks were only marginally tougher and spinier than domestic ones — or so the botanists reckon.
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Artichoke and Cardoon; Cynara scolymus and Cynara cardunculus ... Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) - 'Tenderheart'; Cardoon is a clump forming tender perennial with pinnatifid (spiny) silver gray leaves that develop up to twenty inches long. Purple, two to three inch flower heads will develop throughout the summer...
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Cardoon, artichoke thistle, wild artichoke; (Cynara cardunculus); Click on graphic for larger imag ... The Cardoon ( Scolymus Cardunculus, Linn.) is by some botanists regarded as merely a variety of this plant, but by others as a distinct species. The blanched inner leafstalks and the top of the stalk, the receptacle,
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Closely related to the artichoke, cardoon is grown for its edible leaf petioles rather than for the undeveloped flower buds. The thistle-like plant exhibits vigorous growth reaching a height of 3-5 feet and spreads over an area 6 feet in diameter.
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