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California Early

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.9 oz.

Likely the Christopher Ranch variety from Gilroy, California; via John Swenson. SSE 160.

California Late

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.5 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

First listed in Seed Savers Yearbook by John Navazio of Bar Harbor Maine in 1987 who got starts from Joseph Gubser & Sons of Gilroy, California. SSE 109

Carpathian

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.8 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Carpathian Mountains of SW Poland via Chesnok Farm of Apalachin, New York and Filaree Farms. SSE 107

Carpati

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.8 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Filaree Farm. G10601; SSE 202

Chamiskuri

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.2 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected 1983 from village of Chamiskuri, Chobi Province, Megrelien Region, Republic of Georgia. Gatersleben #K 6035; SSE 131

Chanzhu

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2007 Picture

Collected in 2002 from Chanzhu, Kazakhstan near the Chinese border by Brendan Flanagan of Tiller, Oregon; SSE 327

Chargali

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Republic of Georgia, via Filaree Farm. SSE 113

Chatkal

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.9 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Chatkal Reserve, Uzbekistan, via John Swenson. SSE 56

Chengdu

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2007 Picture

Collected from roadside market in Chengdu, China in 1997 by Dr. Dennis Merritt; via John Swenson; SSE 334

Chengdu #4

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.4 oz. 2007 Picture

Purchased in 1992 from one of the 8 separate vendors in one of two open markets in Chengdu, China around Dongkingzi Je from the alley running between Renminnan Lu and Xingnan Lu streets by Greg Czarnecki of Huber Heights, Ohio; SSE 308

Chet's Italian Purple (aka Chet's, Chet's Italian Red, Italian Purple)

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Rescued by Chet Stevenson from abandoned garden site near Tonasket Washington, and selected by him from 1965-1985, via John Swenson. PI 540368; SSE 43

Chilean Purple

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2007 Picture

From Jamey Craeger of Los Cruces, New Mexico; SSE 331

Chilean Silver

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 2.3 oz.

From Tom Greenwood of Blue Jacket, Oklahoma. SSE 320.

China Stripe

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz.

Purchased by Greg Czarnecki of Dayton Ohio at an open market in NW Beijing, China. SSE 330

Chinese (ophio)

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.9 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From British Columbia grower Dan Jason, via John Swenson. SSE 126

Chinese Pink

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.5 oz. 2007 Picture

From Chester Aaron; SSE 319

Chinese Purple

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Grown in Mexico from Chinese stock, via John Swenson. SSE 149

Chinese Rocambole

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Filaree Farm, 1998. SSE 220

Chinese (sativum)

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.4 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From British Columbia grower Dach Dablinka via Edward Spaans of Stinking Rose Farm, Grand Rapids, Michigan. SSE 138

Choparsky

Variety: Marbled Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Late
Maximum Head Weight: 3.0 oz. 2007 Picture

From Siberian Botanical Garden via Filaree Farms; SSE 309

Chrysalis Purple (aka GSF #79)

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Marcia Halligan and Steve Adams of Chrysalis farm, Viroqua, Wisconsin. SSE 181

Chrysalis Rose

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.5 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Marcia Halligan and Steve Adams of Chrysalis farm, Viroqua, Wisconsin. SSE 221

Cicamura

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.8 oz.

From the former Soviet Republic of Georgia via Filaree Farms.Gatersleben #K 7097; SSE 132

Cichisdzvari #1 (aka Cichisdzhvari #1, Georgian Crystal)

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected 1985 from Cichisdzvari, Borjomi Province, Inner Kartli region, Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gatersleben #K 6819; SSE 87

Cichisdzvari #4 (aka Cichizdzhvari #4, Georgian Fire)

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.8 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected 1985 from Cichisdzvari, Borjomi Province, Inner Kartli region, Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gatersleben #K 6822; SSE 94

Cichisugani

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Republic of Georgia via Filaree Farm. SSE 66

Colorado Black

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Grown for several decades by Craig and Debi Fowler in the Ft. Collins, Colorado area. SSE 222

Craskton

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.5 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Doug Browne, Wellspring Farm, Little Falls, New York. SSE 223

Creole Red

Variety: Creole Harvest Date: Late
Maximum Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Susan Marsh Mongold of Dyer, Nevada. SSE 54

Creole Rocambole

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.7 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Filaree Farm. SSE 224

Croatian Rocambole

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2007 Picture

From Croatia via a Mr. Slattery from Minnesota; SSE 338

Cuzco

Variety: Middle Eastern?? Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 0.2 oz

Collected by Bryan Ward at a market in Cuzco, Peru; via Avram Drucker.

Czech Red

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.7 oz. 2007 Picture

From Les and Debbie Guile of Walnut Grove Farm in Augusta, New Jersey; SSE 314

Czechland Race

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2007 Picture

From Filaree Farm; SSE 291

 
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