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What plants are in the Chenopod family?

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What plants are in the Chenopod family?

Amaranthaceae
Chenopodioideae/Family

What other vegetables are in the asparagus family?

The following is a list of some of the major genera and species in Asparagaceae, arranged alphabetically by common name or genus.

  • genus Agave. cantala (A.
  • genus Asparagus.
  • bluebell (genus Hyacinthoides)
  • butcher’s broom (Ruscus aculeatus)
  • genus Chlorophytum.
  • genus Dracaena.
  • grape hyacinth (genus Muscari)
  • genus Hosta.

What vegetables are Chenopods?

Chenopods include spinach, beets and Swiss chard.

What foods are in the amaranth family?

Food crops in the family include the various forms of beet (Beta vulgaris, including garden beets, chard, sugar beets, and mangel-wurzel), lamb’s quarters (Chenopodium album), and spinach (Spinacia oleracea). Some species—namely, Inca wheat, or love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus), red amaranth (A.

What family is potato?

Nightshade
Potato/Family
Potatoes belong to the nightshade family (Solanaceace), which also includes many other important crops like peppers, tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplant, tobacco, and more. Critical to the world’s food supply, potatoes are the fourth most farmed crop. Potatoes are only distantly related to sweet potatoes.

What family is spinach in?

Spinach/Family

Spinach, (Spinacia oleracea), hardy leafy annual of the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae), used as a vegetable.

What foods are Chenopods?

Chenopods include edibles such as California goosefoot, amaranth, and quinoa. Collectively, chenopod branches are alternate (which means they take turns up a stem), the leaves have petioles (tiny stems) and are shaped like a goose’s foot; hence the name ‘cheno’, which means goose, and ‘pod’ which means foot.

What classification is spinach?

Spinacia oleracea
Data Quality Indicators:

Superorder Caryophyllanae
Order Caryophyllales
Family Amaranthaceae – pigweed, amaranthes
Genus Spinacia L. – spinach
Species Spinacia oleracea L. – spinach

Which vegetables are in the amaranth family?

Amaranth/Family

Which family is spinach in?

Spinach/Family

What kind of plants are in the Chenopodiaceae family?

Spinach, beets, sugar beets, chard, and epazote are members with economic value. The most common chenopods in our region are several species of Atriplex (saltbush) and Chenopodium (goosefoot, pigweed); the latter genus contains both native and exotic herbs.

What kind of soil do chenopods live in?

The flowers are tiny and inconspicuous, but some species bear showy masses of fruits. Chenopods are common in deserts and especially in saline or alkaline soils. Spinach, beets, sugar beets, chard, and epazote are members with economic value.

How many species of Chenopodiaceae are there in India?

Floral formula: Distribution of Chenopodiaceae: It is commonly called Beet or Goosefoot family. It has 102 genera and 1400 species (Willis 1966) out of which 45 species are found in India. They are nearly all halophytic and play important role in coastal flora of Australia, Karro, Mediterranean, S.W. Caspian cost, Red sea shores and Indian sea.

What kind of inflorescence does a Chenopodium have?

Primarily racemose, but partial inflorescences are always cymose (Beta), spike or panicles (Chenopodium), solitary (Polycnemum).