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Cichorum intybusis is an important European vegetable, the forced and blanched shoot being eaten. This factsheet provides information on the market and its cultivation. In the first season of growth the biennial plant produces a rosette of leaves on a thick fleshy root. This requires 4 to 7 months of field growth. The production of high quality roots is the skillful part of witloof production. At harvest the roots are lifted from the soil and cooled. They are then forced in pits or cold frames. This second or forced growth period produces a compact apical bud which left unharvested would develop into the seed stalk.

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