Jerusalem artichoke

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Synonyms for Jerusalem artichoke

tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves

sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips

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Yet the acme of Zanzotto's achievement is the very singularity of his idiom, and one watches in awe as he builds a language at once untranslatable and universal in its "artful earth-flesh," forcing his translators to transcribe and footnote: "Topinambur / to to torotorotix / augellini lilix / distant insects of / waspified yellow / Uryellow lilix." YAHOO!
Der Topinambur - eine Genreserve fur die Sonnenblumenzuchtung [Jerusalem artichoke - a genetic resource for sunflower breeding].