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Found this when I dug up some carrots for lunch this morning.

It is actually a bit paler than the photo shows, almost as pale as a parsnip.

Could it be some kind of throw back? I know carrots were not originally not orange at all. It was the only one like it of those I dug up and the foliage was no different to a normal carrot.
I guess would taste the same but just could not bring myself to cook it!

Variety is Autumn King by the way, which I have grown before but never seen one quite as pale as this.

one of my early nantes was cream rather than orange.  just the one !

tasted the same though.

;D

My guess would be that it's come from a stray seed of another variety.

Unusual to get stray seed in modern packets... now stock and animal feed carrots they can come in all colours... well almost, never seen a blue one!
???

I had several cream ones in my Early Nantes 2. Thought I had read somewhere that it was normal? But then I'd never had success with carrots before so was delighted to get anything!

you and me both periwinkle !  i'm just so amazed by whatever i manage to grow, that i don't care much what shape, colour, size it is.

perhaps next year, i'll start worrying about the odd white carrot !

;D