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Taraxacum mongolicum seed

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Taraxacum mongolicum seed

LATIN NAME: Taraxacum mongolicum

COMMON NAME: Mongolian Dandelion

Every child knows the dandelion. The bright-yellow, many-petalled flower heads open through a very long season, and the toothed, dark-green leaves lie flat in a neat rosette, giving the plant its name. The hollow stems hold the flower heads well above the leaves, and the fine, round, white seed clocks follow, scattering their parachuted seeds on the first warm breeze. The plant is a fine, easy, generous resident of the lawn, the wayside and the meadow, and it is one of the most familiar of all the wild plants. It is a plant of the ordinary, open, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The dandelion sits firmly in the middle of the ongoing studies of the common wild plants, and the plant has been looked at for a very long time for the milky sap and the toothed leaves. Plant scientists have studied the fine, parachuted seeds and the way the plant colonises the open ground so quickly, and it keeps showing up in the work on the meadow wildflowers and the bee plants of the early season. The bright-yellow flower heads are one of the first and the best of the spring pollen plants, and the plant has also drawn the attention of the researchers who study the natural rubber in the milky sap of the dandelion family.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The dandelion does a lot of work for such a common plant. The bright-yellow flowers feed the bees and the hoverflies at the very start of the season, when little else is open, and the leaves have a long record of use as a fine spring green in the salads and the cooked greens of the region. The roots have their own long history in the traditional practice, and the plant has been written about in the botanical papers for the natural rubber in its sap. It is a fine, generous, easy plant of the lawn and the meadow, and it is a dependable friend of the early-season insects.

The dandelion is one of the first flowers of the year, and the bright-yellow heads are a dependable feast for the early bees when little else is open. The toothed, dark-green leaves lie flat in the neat rosette, and the round, white seed clocks are one of the best-loved seed heads of the countryside.

To grow the dandelion from seed, sow the fine, brown seeds over the surface of moist, free-draining trays, pressing them in lightly without covering them, keep them in a bright, open spot and water gently. The seedlings are up within a couple of weeks and grow on fast. With the sun and the ordinary, open ground, the bright-yellow flower heads will be there through the season.

 

 

 

 

Yellow flowering dandelion is common, but the white ones are rare over the world.
Slightly bitter, delicate with the taste of spring and edible from root to flower, the humble dandelion (Taraxacum mongolicum, coreanum Nakai) is more than just a garden weed. As a salad green, dandelions can be grown indoors in containers year round for a continuous harvest.
how to germinate dandelion from seeds
1
Fill a 6-inch-deep or deeper pot, which has bottom drainage holes, with moist potting soil. Use a pot at least 4 inches in diameter for a single dandelion, or grow multiple dandelion plants in a large pot.
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Place dandelion seeds 1 1/2 inches apart on the pot’s soil. Sprinkle a little potting soil over each seed until all the seeds are barely covered, about 1/8 inch deep in the soil.
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Spray the soil with water, dampening the seeds. Place the pot in a bright spot indoors, and keep its soil moist. Dandelion seeds sprout in soil as low as 50 F, but they germinate quicker when the soil temperature is nearer to 77 F. Seedlings should appear above the soil within two weeks after the seeds were sown.
4
Grow dandelion plants in a bright indoor area, such as a sunny porch or a room with natural light. Dandelions grow vigorously in full sun but tolerate partial shade.
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Pour 2 cups of 8-16-8 or other general purpose fertilizer into 1 gallon of water. Blend the fertilizer and water thoroughly. The result is a concentrated fertilizer mixture.
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Fertilize the dandelions’ soil when the plants are 4 to 6 inches tall then twice each month for the rest of the growing season. Combine 2 tablespoons of the concentrated fertilizer mixture with 1 gallon of water, and use the solution to water the dandelion’s soil until it is damp all the way through. Each application of the fertilizer solution replaces one regular watering.
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Water the dandelions’ soil throughout the growing season when the top of the soil dries slightly. Water deeply until excess moisture leaks from the pot’s bottom drainage holes.
8
Cut dandelions for salads at their base when they grow 4 to 8 inches tall. As the leaves mature, they become more bitter and tough, but they are edible at any time.
9
Harvest the dandelion flowers when they open fully but before they go to seed and turn white. Cut a flower stalk at its base. If you grow the dandelions predominantly for salad greens, then pinch off the flowers at their bases as soon as the blooms appear.
10
Overwinter dandelions in containers indoors in a bright, frost-free area. Promote leaf growth by continuing to remove the flowers as they appear. Harvest the leaves through winter.
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