Carrot Pictures
September 23, 2006 · Filed Under Featured Plant
First of course a bifurcation:
More bifurcations:
I don’t know why, but it wasn’t a good year for bifurcations. I had a lot more last year, but didn’t have a chance to take any pictures.
Here are amarillo yellow, cosmic purple and lunar white carrots. I don’t know what the orange carrot is because I didn’t plant any this year. It’s probably just a sport (chance genetic variation) or a stray seed from a different kind that got mixed in with the rest.
Here is the inside of the Cosmic Purple carrot. If you look closely you can see different shades of orange, yellow and green.
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There’s something very graceful and elegant about the bifurcated carrots … not to mention the lovely colours of those varieties.
A trifurcation too … that’s impressive!
I just had the one bifurcation this year, where the root hit a stone. I know it’s regarded as a fault when carrots do this but the forked ones are always the most interesting!
Awesome carrots! You’re inspiring me to try some heirlooms next year.
I have never seen Cosmic Purple carrots. They are beautiful! Where did you get the seeds?
Hi Christa,
The seeds for all these carrots came from Baker Creek http://www.rareseeds.com
Very cool carrots. Love the purple ones. I grew purple haze this year and the colouring is very simlar to yours, maybe a bit deeper. The carrots themselves weren’t very large. I had quite a number of bifurcated carrots as they were planted on top of the irrigation hose and decided to grow around it.
Cool looking carrots! Are any of them particularly flavorful?
I like the white ones the best. The flavor is very mild, not at all bitter and the flesh is very tender. The yellow ones also have good flavor. The purple ones are not bad, but not very exciting.
Even in my garden these things vary from year to year, and I would expect in a different garden they would grow differently. I suggest growing a few of each and seeing which ones do well in your garden.
Thanks, Patrick. I know that the taste does vary by garden–the ‘Scarlet Nantes’ that were so flavorful at my old garden are fairly bland here, for example. I may mix in some yellows and whites next year and see how they do.
The carrots are awesome! You’ve really helped me on my way to self-fulfulment! thanks x
intresting!!!!