Lettuce Witloof

Tsikornogo Witloof salad . spread throughout ordinary endive (Cichorium inybus L . ) is the father of two cultures - chicory root, from which make tsikornogo " coffee "and Witloof chicory or whose products are obtained in the cold season by distillation . Chicory (or tsikornogo salad Witloof) quite original culture, both in terms of its growth, and in terms of consumption . It is often in the literature called chicory salad tsikornogo Witloof, although breeders created a lot of varieties of this crop. This is mainly grades foreign origin (Mitad, Tardivo, Shtokko,Ekström, Express, etc. . ), But there are also domestic (Cone) . The fact that the first grade obtained this kind of salad called Witloof (white head), and it is cultivated in splendid isolation for about 100 years ( 1870) . Hence the name of the varieties gradually spread to the whole culture . And found this unusual plant root cropschicory varieties of Magdeburg .