- You will get 1500 Seeds of Sugar Loaf Endive | NON-GMO | Heirloom Vegetable Seeds. - Genus: Cichorium. - 1500 Sugar Loaf Endive Seeds | NON-GMO | Heirloom. - Sugarloaf chicory looks like “romaine lettuce crossed with napa cabbage.” Unlike escaroles and curly endives, which grow outward in great sprawling rosettes, sugarloaf chicories grow upright to about a foot tall, their leaves wrapping tightly around each other to form dense loaves. - Like the leaves of escaroles and chicories, the leaves of sugarloaf chicories are green at the edges and creamy yellow near the center.