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[Image description: Four brightly colored sliced carrots on a cutting board; being gold, purple with orange and green interior, red with interior rings of red and white, purple with purple and white radiating from center.]
Fascinating, how do they taste?
They vary in sweetness, but generally taste more intense than the ones you'd get at the store. A lot of the common varieties used for baby carrots are bred with a focus on sweetness, and these are more carrot-y in a way. It would be fun if the tasted as different as they look, but nope, all carrot.
That's actually kind of what I'd been hoping for! Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
Whoa, gorgeous.
...i never thought Id be calling a carrot gorgeous today haha
Beautiful! Ignorant question: are all of these edible? I vaguely remember that some wild carrots are toxic, isn't it?
Carrots are part of the Apiacea family (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiacea). There are quite a few poisonous/toxic species in that family, and many of the species look alike to the untrained eye.
What OP described are heirloom varieties of carrots, though, not wild carrots.
Love them! I always like to buy the weird looking carrots when I'm shopping
Woah, that’s really cool to see!
So... How long were these ~~neglected~~ left to thrive before they transitioned into these magnificent beasts?
Absolutely stunning! Let us know how they taste
I wish they tasted as different as they look, but they're pretty much like standard carrots, just generally less sweet and more carrot-y. I've also grown other varieties that were intensely sweet, but not as fantastical looking.
I'm just imagining small carrot cakes, each one made with one of these, with different pops of color. Awesome stuff
That would be fun! These I added to jeweled rice, where extra color is totally on theme.
First glance I thought the one on the left was ginger! Thanks for sharing
Hah, it does kinda look like it doesn't it?
Bet that makes great soup