Sometimes it’s funny to search, read and learn things about native plants. Most of the times, I learn important things from ancient greek books but not this time. This time I feel surprise with the informations I found around the world for Chicorium intybus.
But before I tell you about my gleanings I must tell you about this plant in my country. We call it “radiki” in everyday language and it’s a very known wild plant in Greece. Many generations eat this plant here, they grew up with the salad of this plant.
We collect the fresh leaves in spring and we continue collect them until May when we see the first blue flowers in the plants. We usually boil these leaves and make salad with olive oil, salt and lemon (or vinegar).
