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the vegetable that announces its own digestion through your nose minutes later.
means A tall green spring vegetable grown for its tender edible shoots, eaten before the tips open into fern.
from From Latin asparagus, borrowed from Greek asparagos, meaning a sprout or shoot. English speakers long mangled it into 'sparrow-grass' — a homely folk version that made the exotic vegetable sound like something growing wild in the yard — before the scientific Latin form won out.
- smell gene
- Some people can't detect the funky urine smell
- growth speed
- Can shoot up 10 inches in a day
- patience
- Takes three years before first real harvest
- ancient fan
- Egyptians offered it to their gods
- same family
- Botanically related to onions and lilies
white asparagus of germany — protected pdo designation from beelitz region, represents 50% of german white asparagus production
white asparagus of peru — world's largest exporter, produces 260,000 tons annually for global markets
jersey asparagus — uk protected geographical indication, grown specifically in jersey with distinct flavor from salt air
wild asparagus of navarre — spanish espárrago triguero, foraged delicacy with protected status from navarre region