'White Jewel' Sunchoke Tubers

***These are not seeds. These are tubers that you can propagate like you do potatoes. Helianthus tuberosus Origin: Montana Improvement status: Cultivar Tubers per packet: 5 BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED Life cycle: Perennial Sunchokes, also called "Jerusalem artichokes", are native perennial sunflowers well-known for their prodigious production of edible tubers and their ability to rapidly form a large stand over just a few years. Many people love eating sunchokes (more on edibility later), and it is extremely useful as animal fodder. Pigs love the tubers and cattle love the stalks.This particular variety — which comes to us from our friend Michael Billington in Montana — has unknown origins. It was found in an orchard next to an early 1900s granary on the late Rod McIver’s property in Kalispel, MT (Rod was a forester and orchardist extraordinaire). Though similar to other varieties, it is distinct enough that it does not appear to be any of the previously named varieties.