'Tracy' Rhubarb

Rheum rhabarbarum Origin: Greentown, Pennsylvania Improvement status: Cultivar/Breeding material Seeds per packet: ~30 Germination tested 11/2022: 74% (Below standard) Life cycle: Perennial EFN EXCLUSIVE. We love this rhubarb. If not for Nate, his late great mother Barbara Wolfson, and her old friend Barbara Tracy, plus a whole lot of luck, this wonderful rhubarb would likely have been lost forever. And if not for Nate's sister and brother-in-law in Ann Arbor, Michigan, we might not ever have seeds to offer (because it has never so much as flowered here in the Mid-Atlantic). Here's the full first-person account from Nate: "For many years during my childhood, my family spent most of our summers up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania (with my mother, who was a radiologist at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in North Philly, driving up to join us on weekends). I loved being a free-range kid there, able to explore the forests, fields and streams of that beautiful region.