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<\/p>\nStampede is a North American Jerusalem Artichoke variety , the name alluding to the fact that it is fast growing . Here’s the description in Cornucopia II.
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I first grew a variety called Dagn\u00f8ytral (Dayneutral) which was long recognised as the best variety here in Norway as, unlike other\u00a0varieties, it produces good yields in our long days (hence the name). I was later given \u00a0a variety from Sweden called Bianca (Bianka). introduced to Scandinavia from Russia in the 1970s by a well known Swedish veggie gardener here called Ake Truedsson. They were for me identical, flowering at the same time and morphologically difficult to tell apart, both with knobbly tubers. Next I got Dwarf Sunray from Danish Seed Savers (in 2004) and that also developed to an identical plant \u00a0:)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Reading the description of Stampede in Cornucopia II (picture), I began to wonder if all originated from \/ were identical to that\u00a0Native American variety, so I asked on the Homegrown Goodness forum if anyone could send me a tuber. In December 2008 I received 3 tubers from <\/span>Bunkie Weir<\/a> in the US and, guess what, the flower buds of the Russian, Canadian and Norwegian plants emerged in perfect synchronicity!<\/span><\/p>\n According to Truedsson, Bianka is a widespread variety in Russia, perhaps taken there by Vavilov? Not surprising really that such a superior variety (yieldwise at least) should have spread around the world!<\/span><\/p>\n![\"P1490761\"](\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490761.jpg\")
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