Oca 'Albino' / 'White' / 'Cream'

AVAILABLE IN WINTER UNTIL STOCKS LAST. AFTER JUNE, THE TUBERS WILL BE POTTED AND SOLD WITH A SURCHARGE OF € 1.00.
Delicious bright white, fairly large tubers, fresh and slightly sweet in taste. 'Albino' is a spontaneous white mutant of the New Zealand variety and, like it, is one of the mildest-tasting varieties. Plants produce longer runners. They can be used and eaten raw in salads, cooked, stir-fried, or deep-fried. Young shoots and leaves of the oca are ornamental and pleasantly spicy in salads!
Perhaps unknown in our country, but a staple food in the Andes region after the potato, and also very popular in New Zealand. They grow up to an altitude of 3000 m! Our tubers are spherical, with transverse indentations; the clover leaf and the orange-yellow flowers are very decorative. The taste is like a potato with a pleasant, slightly sour aftertaste (oxalic acid). This disappears, however, if the tubers have been left in the sun for a few days, at which point they become floury and sweet. Cultivation in brief: in March, start the tubers growing in a warm, light spot, if possible put them outside on nice days, and plant them permanently outdoors from mid-May. Cover late in autumn to achieve the longest possible ripening, the tubers must overwinter frost-free.

Names:
Latin: Oxalis tuberosa, or also Oxalis crenata
Dutch: Oca
Also: Clover Sorrel Tuber, Oxalis crenata
English: Oca