A colourful red chicory (also known as Radicchio) with a tangy taste often used as a winter crop and harvested to eat in autumn and early spring salads. The colour develops as temperatures begin to drop in mid autumn. Rich in many vitamins, ‘Rossa di Treviso’ is a tall-growing ‘non-forcing’ chicory which grows a lot like lettuce culminating in heads of white-veined maroon leaves with thick, pure-white stems. The plant is actually a biennial, but it's often treated as an annual and harvested in its first year of growth.