Vegetable
White Vienna
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White Vienna is the classic pale green-skinned kohlrabi with white flesh—the shape most Europeans picture. Tender when harvested tennis-ball size; flavour is apple-crisp and cabbage-sweet. Open-pollinated Vienna types remain garden standards. Peel and slice for crudités, or steam lightly with butter. Avoid baseball-hard giants. The baseline white kohlrabi for markets and seed racks.
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Preparations
Butter SteamCream Sauce ClassicCruditeLight BoilRaw Slice
Traits
ClassicCrisp SweetOP Garden StandardPalePale Green SkinTennis Ball BestVienna TypeWhite Flesh Classic
History
AT
Vienna-region types defined pale early kohlrabi for Central Europe.
DE
White Vienna seed was a catalogue staple across German-speaking lands.
White Vienna remained the default pale kohlrabi worldwide.
Heirloom gardeners still planted White Vienna for reliable bulbs.