category: food/groceries: vegetables: leaf vegetables

Radicchio, Italian chicory, red chicory, bot.: cichorium intybus L. var. foliosum Hegi, de.: Radicchio, Roter Chicorée, Rote Endivie, Veroneser Radicchio, fr.: chicorée rouge, it.: radicchio, radicchio Verona, radicchio di Treviso, cicorino rosso, es.: achicoria, cardo

Radicchio belongs to the botanical family of sunflowers (bot.: Compositae or Asteraceae). There are two different kinds of radicchio, depending on the way they grow. The first is the well known head of radicchio, it is planted in spring and can be harvested until the first frosts in autumn. The second kind does not form closed heads but loose leaf rosettes. Radicchio di Verona is one example for this second kind. It is planted in summer and harvested the next spring. Another species of radicchio is Radicchio di Trevese.