The "Wild Carrot", Daucus carota, otherwise known as "Queen Anne's Lace" has
a rather small pale taproot. Pull one up this summer and you will see what I
mean. Only the garden cultivars have that large orange taproot because of
its much greater concentration of carotinoid and anthocyanin pigments. The
"Black Carrot" is a garden cultivar that has an even greater concentration
of those pigments giving the taproot the dark color. There are cultivars
with the taproots in other colors too!

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Mook23 wrote in message news:1048712111.727395@news...
I'vew read that there are species' or carrots that are black. Does anyone
know a source for these or possibly maybe some experience with them?