Chicory Coffee Flower. Chicory is a flowering plant. It is also called blue daisy or blue dandelion thanks to the pretty bright blue flowers it has.
While almost all parts of the chicory plant are used either as food or as medicine it. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves chicons or roots which are baked ground and used as a coffee substitute and food additive. Growing chicory is simple and in this post I explain how to do it all using traditional techniques.
07092020 Native to Africa Asia and Europe and brought to the US.
Furthermore chicory has no berry but instead the root of chicory is used as substitute for coffee. With a dark slightly sweet and rich flavor similar to roasted coffee sans caffeine its. It is also called blue daisy or blue dandelion thanks to the pretty bright blue flowers it has. 05052021 Chicory flowers are bright blue and you might know them as blue daisies or blue dandelions.