Victoria (rhubarb)

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Victoria is a variety of common rhubarb .

Victoria rhubarb plants sprout late and produce particularly thick, broad, round petioles that can weigh up to 1 kg. The stems are cardinal red on the outside, the inside is green with red spots or speckles. In terms of taste, the less sweet variety lags behind other cultivated forms, but is still very popular today due to its versatility and the large and long-term yield. Victoria is the oldest variety of rhubarb grown to this day. It can be easily grown from seeds and is also suitable for forcing. Victoria also produces early harvests with medium to good yields when grown outdoors. Victoria is one of the varieties cultivated in the Rhubarb Triangle in Yorkshire and, in any case, shortly after the Second World War it was also the most widely represented variety in Germany.

The breed was first offered in 1837, the year Queen Victoria's accession to the throne , by the breeder Joseph Myatt, initially under the name Myatt's Victoria . It is cultivated today, among other things, as part of the national rhubarb plant collections in the garden of the Royal Horticultural Society by Harlow Carr .

literature

  • Christopher Stocks: Forgotten Fruits. The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables. Windmill, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-09-951474-9 , p. 198 with further references.
  • Kretschmer / Nordmann / Plüghan / Tesch: Field vegetable growing. Berlin, 1954, pp. 257-261.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=544 accessed on April 24, 2014
  2. a b Christopher Stocks: Forgotten Fruits. The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables. Windmill, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-09-951474-9 , p. 199 with further references.
  3. ↑ Application for registration Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb (according to Art. 6 Paragraph 2 of Regulation (EC) No. 510/2006), in: Official Journal of the European Union of 12 August 2009, 2009 / C 189/11 (PDF)
  4. Kretschmer / Nordmann / Plüghan / Tesch: The field vegetable production. Berlin, 1954, pp. 257-261
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