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Tiger nut, Cyperus Sculentus, is a vigorous plant with leafs in
rosette and from 40 to 50 centimetres. It posses a rhizomatic radicular
system, from which depart small roots in which extremes the tiger
nuts are formed. Those tiger nuts acquire two forms: "llargueta"
(prolonged) and "armela" (rounded).
Tiger nut is cultivated in sixteen villages of the region of Valencia
"L'Horta Nord", that combines climatic and pedologic requirements
and converts it in the unique zone of Spain on where this peculiar
tuber are cultivated.
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