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Radicchio is a Leaf Chicory, sometimes known as Italian Chicory. A leaf salad vegetable that forms a compact head of red leaves with white veins. The ball shaped head is about the size of a clenched fist. It has a slightly bitter and spicy taste and mixes very well with other salad leaves, adding both colour and zest.

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Radicchio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (472 words)
	Radicchio (Cichorium intybus, Asteraceae) is a leaf chicory, sometimes known as Italian chicory.
	Radicchio plants are taken from the earth and placed in water in darkened sheds, where lack of light and ensuing inhibition of chlorophyll production cause the plants to lose their green pigmentation.
	The varieties of radicchio are named after the Italian regions where they originate: the most ubiquitous variety in the United States is radicchio di Chioggia, which is maroon, round, and about the size of a grapefruit.

botany/cichorium (752 words)
	Radicchio is a variety of Leaf Chicory that resembles a small red cabbage.
	Chicory and Radicchio - Seeds of Chicory should be planted 6 to 12 inches apart in the garden in mid-spring in the North and late summer in the Deep South.
	Radicchio seeds are sown 8 to 10 inches apart in mid-spring in the North and in late summer in the Deep South.

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