Carrot
The carrot (pronounced CARE-ot) is a type of plant. Many different types exist. The Latin name of the plant is usually given as Daucus carota. The plant has an edible, orange root, and usually white flowers. Wild carrots grow naturally in Eurasia. Domesticated carrots are grown for food in many parts of the world.
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Scandiceae |
| Genus: | Daucus |
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| Subspecies: | D. c. subsp. sativus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Daucus carota subsp. sativus | |
Carrots are grown in the ground, and carrots roots are a common edible vegetable. After cleaning, the roots may be eaten raw or cooked. They are served as part of many dishes. In Portugal, carrot jam is a speciality.
Images
Raw carrots
Carrots can come in different colors
What they look like before being used for cooking.
Nutrition
Carrots are a moderate source of beta carotene, biotin, vitamin K1, vitamin B6, and potassium. Along with beta-carotene, carrots also have carotenoids another antioxidant helpful to enhance immunity functions and decreased risk of cardiovascular diseases, degenerative diseases and different types of cancers[1]
Carrot Media
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."
β-Carotene structure. Carotene is responsible for the orange colour of carrots.
Workers harvesting carrots by hand, Imperial Valley, California, 1948
The seeds of a carrot, possibly Daucus carota subsp. sativus. Cropped from the "3D" picture
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Seeds of Daucus carota subsp. maximus – MHNT
Kintoki carrots, a Japanese cultivar from Kyoto Prefecture
Seedlings shortly after germination
Flowers consist of five petals, five stamens, and an entire calyx.
Daucus carota umbel (inflorescence). Individual flowers are borne on undivided pedicels from a common node.
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