{"id":25176,"date":"2020-04-10T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25176"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:57:49","slug":"the-mossy-dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25176","title":{"rendered":"The mossy dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s 100 years since <em>Vilmorin-Andrieux&#8217;s The Vegetable Garden: <span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Illustrations, descriptions, and culture of the garden vegetables of cold and temperate climates <\/span><\/em>was published! The plant I most associate with this fantastic book is what I&#8217;ve called &#8220;The Legendary Moss-Leaved Dandelion&#8221;. I fell in love with the image of this variety of dandelion when I first saw it (see below) and I later blogged about how I sought after and was finally able to grow it myself here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1193\">https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1193<\/a><br \/>There was even a T-shirt printed in its honour (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1043\">https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1043<\/a>)<br \/>However, it was only yesterday that I discovered how mossy looking it can be in the early spring when I tried to clean moss away from the young dark leaves of a plant I was harvesting for a salad ;)<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25176 gallery-columns-1 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=25178'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940767.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-25178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940767.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940767-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940767-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940767-640x481.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-25178'>\n\t\t\t\tThe mossy looking young dark leaves \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=25181'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940755.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-25181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940755.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940755-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940755-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940755-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940755-640x644.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-25181'>\n\t\t\t\tThe mossy looking young dark leaves \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/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=25179'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dandy4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-25179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dandy4.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dandy4-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-25179'>\n\t\t\t\tThe description in the Vegetable Garden\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=25180'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"311\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dandy3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-25180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dandy3.jpg 311w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dandy3-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-25180'>\n\t\t\t\tThe wonderful 100 year old illustration of the Moss-leaved dandelion\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 100 years since Vilmorin-Andrieux&#8217;s The Vegetable Garden: Illustrations, descriptions, and culture of the garden vegetables of cold and temperate climates was published! The plant I most associate [&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":[150,1355],"tags":[3854,1097,3852,2369,3853],"class_list":["post-25176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dandelions","category-perennial-vegetables","tag-centennial","tag-moss-leaved-dandelion","tag-taraxacum-sublaciniosum","tag-the-vegetable-garden","tag-vilmorin-andrieux"],"views":2241,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176","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=25176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25183,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions\/25183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}