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Uzbek Golden

Purple Dragon

Kyoto Red

Gniff

[Image description: Four brightly colored sliced carrots on a cutting board; being gold, purple with orange and green interior, red with interior rings of red and white, purple with purple and white radiating from center.]

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Fascinating, how do they taste?

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They vary in sweetness, but generally taste more intense than the ones you’d get at the store. A lot of the common varieties used for baby carrots are bred with a focus on sweetness, and these are more carrot-y in a way. It would be fun if the tasted as different as they look, but nope, all carrot.

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That’s actually kind of what I’d been hoping for! Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

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Whoa, gorgeous.

…i never thought Id be calling a carrot gorgeous today haha

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These are absolutely incredible. I love natural art

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Beautiful! Ignorant question: are all of these edible? I vaguely remember that some wild carrots are toxic, isn’t it?

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Carrots are part of the Apiacea family (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiacea). There are quite a few poisonous/toxic species in that family, and many of the species look alike to the untrained eye.

What OP described are heirloom varieties of carrots, though, not wild carrots.

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Woah, that’s really cool to see!

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