what are the white things on a dandelion called
In Turkish the dandelion is called karahindiba meaning black endive. Hungarian names are kutyatej (dog milk, referring to the white sap found in the stem) and gyermeklÃ¡ncfÅ± (child's chain grass, referring to the habit of children to pick dandelions, remove the flowers, and make links out of the stems by plugging the narrow top end of the stem into the wider bottom end).