Vegetable
American Purple Top
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American Purple Top is the classic US/Canadian rutabaga with purple crown, cream-yellow base, and fine yellow flesh—the shape most shoppers recognise. Sweet after frost; good storage. Open-pollinated garden and field standard. Mash, roast, or cube for soups. The heirloom reference purple-top swede. Harvest after cold for best sugar.
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Classic MashFrost Harvest RoastGarden StoreSoup CubeStew
Traits
Classic ShapeFrost SweetOP StandardPurple Crown ClassicPurple TopStandardSweet After ColdYellow Fine Flesh
History
US
American Purple Top became a named standard rutabaga in seed trade.
US
Commercial and garden plantings relied on Purple Top types.
OP American Purple Top persisted beside hybrids.
It remained the default named purple-top rutabaga.