Germplasm: AKER_10409

AKER_10409

PI 2016

https://doi.org/10.15454/2QADS6

Foliage compact and well proportioned to the root. The root is conical in shape, both at the top and base, but longer and more tapering below. The color of the flesh is deep red, or almost black. The leaves themselves ])resent coloring no less intense they are relatively broad, and are never, at any time during their growth, plain green, which is extremely rare, even among varieties of beets that haye their foliage more highly colored in autumn. Sometimes used for bordering groups of dark-foliaged flowering plants. (Vilmorin.)

France