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Pulled some overgrown heirloom carrots from a neglected corner of my yard, love these cross sections (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by thrawn21@beehaw.org to c/greenspace@beehaw.org

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[Image description: Four brightly colored sliced carrots on a cutting board; being gold, purple with orange and green interior, red with interior rings of red and white, purple with purple and white radiating from center.]

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[–] zarzamora@beehaw.org 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Beautiful! Ignorant question: are all of these edible? I vaguely remember that some wild carrots are toxic, isn't it?

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[–] PlantJam@beehaw.org 8 points 3 years ago

Carrots are part of the Apiacea family (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiacea). There are quite a few poisonous/toxic species in that family, and many of the species look alike to the untrained eye.

What OP described are heirloom varieties of carrots, though, not wild carrots.

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