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| Nov 22, 2013 at 13:59 | vote | accept | citizen | ||
| Nov 16, 2013 at 12:40 | history | edited | SAJ14SAJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2013 at 12:40 | comment | added | SAJ14SAJ | The carrot museum website does mention that (carrotmuseum.co.uk/history2.html#byzantine) but evidently they were not common or cultivated at that time, according to their other pages... since this is the most authoritative site I found, I went with their analysis. Still, the Dutch hybridizers must have had some base stock from which to work, so this makes sense. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 12:13 | comment | added | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | I've also read that the orange carrot is a Dutch cultivation, even explained with orange being the national colour of the Netherlands. However, even the "Vienna Dioscurides" dating from appr. 515 AD has a picture of an orange carrot, making it obvious that orange carrots were at least bred and probably quite common much earlier: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 13:27 | history | answered | SAJ14SAJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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