250 Sugar Beet Beta Vulgaris Vegetable Seeds and 50 similar items

- You will get 250 Seeds of Sugar Beet Beta Vulgaris Vegetable Seeds. - Genus: Beta. - 250 Sugar Beet Seeds beta vulgaris . - A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and which is grown commercially for sugar production. In plant breeding it is known as the Altissima cultivar group of the common beet (Beta vulgaris). Together with other beet cultivars, such as beetroot and chard, it belongs to the subspecies Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris. Its closest wild relative is the sea beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima). - The sugar beet has a conical, white, fleshy root (a taproot) with a flat crown. The plant consists of the root and a rosette of leaves. Sugar is formed by photosynthesis in the leaves and is then stored in the root.