Wild chicorey
The wild chicorey ( Cichorium intybus ) is a long-lived herbaceous plant of the family of the Astéracées.
Description
It is a herbaceous Plante robust, more or less pubescent, long-lived, of 40 cm 1 m from top, very common in the uncultivated meadows, fields and at the edge of the ways. Originating in Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is naturalized in North America.
Very oarswoman, it presents basal Feuille S deeply cut out (roncinées), lancéolées whole intermediate sheets, embracing the Tige, and of the higher sheets reduced to bractées. The Inflorescence S are flowerheads made of ligulées flowers, blue. They are spread out in sunny weather and approach the night or in covered weather. The Fruit S (Akène S) are surmounted by a crown of hairs (pappus). The root is swivelling. All the parts of the plant are bitter.
It is at the origin of the Beard of capuchin, the chicories roasting and the Endive S or Chicon S, of the Italian chicoreys (of Trévise, Raddichio…).
Characteristics
- reproductive Bodies:
- Standard of inflorescence: racème of flowerheads
- distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
- of pollination: entomogame, autogame
- Period of flowering: July at September
- Seed:
- Standard of fruit: Akène
- Mode of dissemination: barochore
- Habitat and distribution:
- standard Habitat: European xerophilous long-lived waste lands
- Surface of distribution: eurasiatic Southerner
Food use
Those of the cultivated chicorey: young salad sheets, sheets cooked out of vegetable and roots torrefied to manufacture a coffee substitute but much more digeste, mixed in particular with milk. There is 40 years the " café" in the campaigns was chicorey or a mixture chicorey coffee.
Bore of capuchin
The bores of capuchin is a salad of Hiver obtained by the setting in forcing of roots of wild chicorey laid out in layers of Fumier, with the darkness, in a cellar for example. This forcing causes the growth of étiolées, long and narrow sheets. The varieties selected with this use have a long right root. This culture had developed much around Paris in the middle of the 19th century, in particular with Montreuil.
Medicinal properties
It is a tonic bitter, cholagogue, dépuratif and slightly laxative.
External bonds
Beats-smg: Cikuorėjė
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