Salsify, often called the oyster plant for it's mild oyster-like flavour, is a cool weather crop, requiring quite a long growing season, between 120 and 150 days. A tall plant, they can reach nearly 3 feet with delicate pale purple colour flowers. It is grown for the sake of its fleshy, tapering roots that taste like fried oysters when sliced and French fried.It is a very easy and trouble free crop to grow normally as an annual much like parsnips or a closely related variety Scorzonera but initially a bit slow to get started.
