Oca 'Orange Admirable' / 'Sillustani'

AVAILABLE IN WINTER UNTIL STOCKS LAST. AFTER JUNE, THE TUBERS ARE POTTED AND SOLD WITH A SURCHARGE OF €1.00.
Delicious orange tubers, fresh and sweet in taste. This variety produces the sweetest tubers with the most compact growth, with the tubers close to the plant. 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 deliciously spicy in salads!
Perhaps unknown to us, 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! The tubers are spherical with transverse indentations, and the clover leaf and 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 in the sun for a few days, after which they become floury and sweet. In short, cultivation: in March, start the tubers growing in a warm, light spot, place them outside on nice days if possible, and plant them permanently outside 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 tuber, Oxalis crenata
English: Oca