Sunchoke - Variety Chinese Long - Individual Tubers - Helianthus tuberosa - Sunroot - Jerusalem Artichoke Tubers for Planting or Eating

Chinese Long sunchokesThese are smooth and elongated which means they are easy to clean and prepare.  They taste like most other varities.  At harvest the tubers can get as big as a half pound each. The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambour, is a species of sunflower native to eastern North America, and found from eastern Canada and Maine west to North Dakota, and south to northern Florida and Texas. It is also cultivated widely across the temperate zone for its tuber, which is used as a root vegetable The flowers are yellow and produced in capitate flowerheads, which are 5–10 centimetres (2.0–3.9 in) in diameter, with 10–20 ray florets. The tubers are elongated and uneven, typically 7.5–10 centimetres (3.0–3.9 in) long and 3–5 centimetres (1.2–2.0 in) thick, and vaguely resembling ginger root, with a crisp texture when raw. They vary in color from pale brown to white, red, or purple. The artichoke contains about 10% prote