The oats root (Tragopogon porrifolius), also Habermark, support beard, white root, or Milcher mentioned, belongs to the family of the (Asteraceae). The oats root originally comes from the Mediterranean area, where it is used since the antique one as vegetable. The plant is two-year and becomes high up to 120 cm. In the second year she trains red to violet basket blooms.

Use

Vegetable

The oats root is predominantly used as root vegetable, in addition, the sheets can be prepared as salad or spinach. The tasting milchhaltige root, whose taste reminds of oysters, is very nutritious, what also a alemannisches proverb means: "Habermark macht'd Bube strongly". Up to 30 cm long white stake root leaves itself only in first year to harvest, since it becomes too holzig in the second year, in which it develops also blooms.

Cure

As many to vegetable places also the oats root can be used as cures. Nicholas Culpeper (1614-1645) writes: "The cooked root is good for the cold, watered stomach". In addition it used up the plant as liver and Gallentonicum. In addition, shrink-addicted is to strengthen it.

Historical

The oats root became already in 16. Century in Central Europe cultivated. With the time it was nearly completely displaced however by the tasting similar Schwarzwurzel.

See also

• Meadow support beard
• Large support beard

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