{"id":11910,"date":"2017-06-23T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2019-01-02T21:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T20:44:36","slug":"rapunsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11910","title":{"rendered":"Rapunsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ficgl\" data-offset-key=\"bgk11-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bgk11-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bgk11-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Phyteuma spicatum is the most popular bee plant in my garden at the moment and a great edimental&#8230;.a very old root vegetable in Europe, mentioned already by Gerard&#8217;s Herball from 1597, but best known as a vegetable in France and Germany.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ficgl\" data-offset-key=\"7mqi4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7mqi4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7mqi4-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">These pictures are from a bed in my garden where I originally planted Phyteuma nigrum (P. spicatum subsp. nigra) many years ago. It must have crossed with other plants elsewhere in my garden as there&#8217;s now a range of colours from white to almost black!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ficgl\" data-offset-key=\"11i67-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"11i67-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"11i67-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The name rapunsel is related to rapa (turnip) due to its use as a root vegetable!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"11i67-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"11i67-0-0\">\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11910 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=11912'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"649\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750043-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750043-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750043-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750043.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=11911'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AroundtheWorld_ArcheNoah_Jun17_StKoloman.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11911\" 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Therefore, I made a special slide for the occasion (see picture). The picture of the roots was from my garden! They were quite tasty!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This\u00a0video was taken in June 2016 during the big diamond back moth invasion..<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11910-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Phyteuma_and_K\u00e5lm\u00f8ll.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Phyteuma_and_K\u00e5lm\u00f8ll.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Phyteuma_and_K\u00e5lm\u00f8ll.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phyteuma spicatum is the most popular bee plant in my garden at the moment and a great edimental&#8230;.a very old root vegetable in Europe, mentioned already by Gerard&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2372,1275,2373,1276,2371,2370,2374],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-root-crops","tag-alps","tag-diamond-back-moth","tag-gerarde","tag-kalmoll","tag-phyteuma-nigra","tag-phyteuma-spicatum","tag-rapunsel"],"views":4686,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20777,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions\/20777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}