JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE / Helianthus tuberosus
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A North American plant, and the name Jerusalem artichoke has no geographical
significance. It is merely a corruption of the Italian girasole articiocco. Girasole means turn-sun, a reference to the quite imaginary practice of the sunflowers in turning their heads to follow the sun. Cutting an artichoke in half and rubbing the cut side on the roots of the hair was an old country remedy against baldness (Quelch).
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