Chicory
Cichorium endivia · Daisy family
Plant portrait
Curly endives and escaroles form rosettes of more or less divided leaves.
Harvested part
The rosette leaves.
What to watch for
Compare the spread and division of the leaves; forms vary between varieties.
Growth stages of the chicory
Plotilo illustrates the chicory in 5 stages in 3D: seed, small sprout, young plant, growing and harvest. The models show typical shapes; they do not predict how long growth takes.
- Seed
Starting from a seed. It is shown on the surface to make it visible in this illustration.
- Small sprout
A short first stem and its first small leaves emerge.
- Young plant
The young plant carries more leaves and starts to take its own shape.
- Growing
Leaves and stems develop. Their shape depends on the species.
- Harvest
An illustration of the harvested part. Roots are made visible for clarity; this image does not confirm actual maturity.
Same botanical family
Same botanical family as the chicory (the daisy family): the lettuce, the globe artichoke, the greater burdock, the cardoon, the paracress, the Witloof chicory and 4 more plants from the catalogue. Gardeners usually avoid growing the same family in the same spot several years in a row: that is the idea behind crop rotation.
- Lettuce Lactuca sativa
- Globe artichoke Cynara cardunculus Scolymus Group
- Greater burdock Arctium lappa
- Cardoon Cynara cardunculus
- Paracress Acmella oleracea
- Witloof chicory Cichorium intybus Witloof Group
- Yacon Smallanthus sonchifolius
- Salsify Tragopogon porrifolius
- Scorzonera Scorzonera hispanica
- Jerusalem artichoke Helianthus tuberosus