No, they bear a superficial resemblance, but are quite distinct. Both the same species, but Daikons were developed in East Asia - Japan, Korea, China. White Icicle is a European type. Different in terms of the crop cycle -- European types are super quick, usually 20-30 days for most of them. Daikons can be as long as 70-80 days. Also a big difference in size - your average European radish is an inch or two across, maybe 3-4 inches long for the icicle shaped ones when at edible size. I think the world record Asian type radish is 68 1/2 lbs. Daikon is only one type of Asian radish -- there are long ones, round ones, short ones, etc, just as with the European type. You mentioned that your white icicles are a foot long -- I could see them doing that in good conditions, but I don't know if the quality would be good at that point -- they get awfully spongy when overgrown. Daikons generally avoid this fate for a long, long time, until they're in bloom.

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I think it's good to remember that all trades and wants should be posted in the Tomato Seed Exchange, not here in the General Discussion area. The link for the Tomato Seed Exchange is at the top of this first page to the right and just above the first thread title. If I didn't post this I know Dave would have as he has before so this time I beat him to it. LOL When Spike owned the site we had him put up the Seed Exchange site b'c this General Discussion one was getting filled with trades and wants, so he did so. And he also put up the Pest and Disease Forum as well as the photog one as well, and all of those are also linked to at the top of this first page. I just wanted to say that others have reported that the various icicle varieties have not gotten good reports as regards taste at least at some of the message sites where I read/post. The black one was bred by a man in the Ukraine and the others came from a commercial seed source in a different part of the CIS ( Commonwealth of Independent States) formerly known to many as the USSR. Carolyn