Jerusalem artichoke plant "Dwarf"

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Jerusalem artichoke "Dwarf" is the smallest variety. It won´t get taller than 80 cm and is perfect suitable for plant pots. Planted in a larger bucket, or in the garden you will have a lot of fun with it.

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Jerusalem artichokes variety Dwarf

Jerusalem artichoke Dwarf is the smallest "Topinambur variety" Dwarf is perfect for growing on the balcony in a plant pot, or for a small garden.
Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) is a member of the flowering plant family (Asteraceae) and belongs to the same genus as the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). It has large leaves and small krätig-yellow flowers. In English-speaking countries, Jerusalem artichokes is known as sunroot.

Further names for the Jerusalem artichoke are: German potato, Erdartischocke, Erdäpfel, Erdbirne, Erdschocke, Erdsonnenblume, Ewigkeitskartoffel, Indianerknolle, Jerusalemartischocke, small sunflower, tuberous sunflower, sugar potato in south bathing also as Ross- peanuts,since they used to be fed to horses often.

appearance

The perennial herbaceous plant grows up to three meters in some varieties up to almost four meters high. The tubers form upright stems. Stalked, egg-shaped rough leaves sit on these. These are seven to ten inches wide and between ten and twenty-five inches long.

The four to eight centimeters wide, cup-shaped inflorescences bloom in the period from August to November in a beautiful yellow. They sit in the axils of the upper leaves. The tongue and tube flowers are hermaphroditic. The seeds ripen due to the late flowering period in Central Europe normal wusually not out.

Nevertheless, the plants reproduce very well through their root tubers. In July and August, the plant forms elongated spindle-shaped tubers on the subterranean foothills, serving as a carbohydrate reservoir. Out of them, new sprouts will spring from them next spring.