The coarse dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale ) blooms year round in arena with affectionate winters . Elsewhere , this edible perennial goes dormant in winter . Whether an abundance ofdandelionsis undecomposed or uncollectible depends on their locating and a person ’s view about the works . Although considered a pain in lawns , dandelions are becoming a desirable and expensive salad immature as well as a focus of research related to the tyre industry .

Bloom Cycle

dandelion do n’t have real root . Their seedling develop into a rosette of leafage on the soil ’s surface and produce flowers on hollow stalks . The flowers bloom about eight to 15 week after germination at the ending of the seedling stage . Individual plants prime continuously while active , but most copiously in May and June . A individual flower produces up to 400 seeds , but average 180 . seminal fluid mature from nine to 12 days after the flower blossom . The Garden Organic website notes that about 90 percent of the seeds germinate . As to the plant ’s tenacious spigot ascendant , the University of California Integrated Pest Management programme notes that it can grow 15 feet foresighted , but is usually 6 to 18 inches inscrutable .

History and Background

Immigrants on the Mayflower , brought the coarse dandelion to the New World in the 1600s . They valued its bright jaundiced blossom , edibleness and economic consumption as a ethnic music remedy for problems including dyspepsia . The plant gets its name from the Gallic phrase " dent de Leo , " which means " tooth of the lion " and refer to the jagged indentations of its leaves . Based on its ability to grow everywhere from the Arctic Circle to stand in - Antarctica , the dandelion is one of the existence ’s most successful flowers . Despite being maligned for blooming where homeowner and sward managers do n’t desire it , the dandelion is also bloom commercially .

Commercial Growth

U.S. consumers seize with teeth into $ 2 million of fresh dandelion greens in a one - year period ending in March 2009 , agree to " The Wall Street Journal . " radical of the Russian dandelion ( T. kok - saghyz ) may become more and more expensive as enquiry stay on on turning the industrial plant ’s latex into rubber . The global tyre industry is focusing on studies by Ohio State University , Canada ’s University of Guelph and Germany ’s University of Munster .

Worldwide Growth

Although they germinate considerably at around 77 level Fahrenheit , dandelions adapt to the chilliest of climates . On South Georgia Island — to the south of Chile — which averages about 49 degree Fahrenheit during its warmest month of February , blowball are a non - aboriginal species . They are spreading and can even be establish arise on the grave of South Pole explorer Ernest Shackleton . While some South Georgians appreciate them as improver to salad , researchers of the British Antarctic Survey worry about them becoming encroaching .

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