{"id":18624,"date":"2018-07-29T18:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T16:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18624"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:58:11","slug":"18624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18624","title":{"rendered":"Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most successful of the half dozen Phyteuma<\/em> species I\u2019ve tried in my garden has been a plant received as Phyteuma nigrum <\/em>(syn. Phyteuma spicatum ssp nigrum<\/em>), black rampion or (Norwegian) svartvadderot. It has much darker flowers than Phyteuma spicatum<\/em>, sometimes almost black. I planted it from seed propagated plants in 2003 and this picture is from 2006-2007:
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It has self-sowed freely and seems to have crossed with other accessions of Phyteuma spicata<\/em> with white and blue (ssp. caeruleum) flowers that I have in my garden (these have not self-sowed much) as there is now a mix of colours in the original spot I planted nigrum. Phyteuma spicatum\/nigra<\/em> is also \u00a0the most popular bee plant in my garden in mid-June and a great edimental (one of the edi-entomentals, plants combining food, ornament as well as good for bees and other pollinators!). Phyteuma spicatum<\/em> (rapunsel) is a very old root vegetable in Europe, mentioned already in Gerard\u2019s Herball from 1597, but best known as a vegetable in France and Germany! The name rapunsel is related to rapa (turnip) due to its use as a root vegetable!
\nSee my blog post from 23rd June 2017 with pictures and video of black rampion:\u00a0http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11910<\/a>
\nI tried Phyteuma spicatum<\/em> as a root vegetable in 2013 and was struck by its good sweetish taste:<\/p>\n