Is it for the plant to store energy and we just simply evolved to take advantage of that?
In: Biology
Yes it is an energy store. The carrot is just a energy storing root for a flowering plant.
If you leave a carrot in the ground for a second year instead of picking it, it’ll flower and you can get seeds, but the root itself no longer looks like your nice traditional single long carrot, and it gets very hard and woody.
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