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Dahlia
Dahlia × pinnata
Mexico’s original food tuber that Europe turned into a show bloom — petals for a salad, tubers for a dry-winter cellar.
Flavor
Petals are mild lettuce. Tuber is water-chestnut adjacent, slightly sweet, best roasted or sautéed.
In favor
A second harvest under the bloom
Against
Must lift in zone 6b
Days to harvest
80–100 days to a good bloom; tubers at season’s end
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