Carrot cake topping

On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is carrot cake topping the cultivated vegetable. Not to be confused with Karat. The carrot is a biennial plant in the umbellifer family, Apiaceae.

At first, it grows a rosette of leaves while building up the enlarged taproot. A depiction labeled “garden” carrot from the Juliana Anicia Codex, a 6th-century AD Constantinopolitan copy of Dioscorides’ 1st-century Greek pharmacopoeia. The facing page states that “the root can be cooked and eaten. Both written history and molecular genetic studies indicate that the domestic carrot has a single origin in Central Asia. When they were first cultivated, carrots were grown for their aromatic leaves and seeds rather than their roots.