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A hundred years ago, gardeners cultivated dandelions in their garden bed: https://williamrubel.com/2015/04/23/the-history-of-the-garde...

Basil is a cultivated herb that often breaks out of containment and goes wild. Sometimes, people will redomesticate those because the ones that survive the local conditions are well-adapted to the climate.

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That's interesting, but it's not clear whether there is any cultivated dandelion species that is substantially different from the wild dandelion.

You might not have to deliberately breed it in any particular way since wild dandelions are already yields something useful for humans.

Yeah but if they'd been bred they would be much more useful. Compare wild carrots to domesticated carrots:

https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/wild-carro...

but wild coconut palms are exactly the same as farmed/domesticated ones. There is no difference between them (atleast until before the green revolution)

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