Amaranthus blitum

Amaranthus blitum

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flowering plant

Order	[[]]
Family	[[]]
Genus	Amaranthus

2n =

Origin : area of origin

wild or cultivated

Uses summary

leafy vegetable

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Description

• 1, flowering and fruiting branch; 2, fruit; 3, seed. Redrawn and adapted by Iskak Syamsudin
  1, flowering and fruiting branch; 2, fruit; 3, seed. Redrawn and adapted by Iskak Syamsudin
• broad-leaved form
  broad-leaved form
• habit (top view), Uganda
  habit (top view), Uganda
• weedy form
  weedy form
• 
  leafy plant
• infructescence
  infructescence

Uses

Amaranthus blitum Linn. Amaranthaceae. AMARANTHUS. WILD BLITE. Temperate and tropical zones. The plant finds use as a pot-herb.

Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.

Links

• BHL
• FAO Ecocrop
• Feedipedia
• Grieve's herbal
• GRIN
• IPNI
• Mansfeld
• Moerman, Native American Ethnobotany
• Multilingual Plant Name Database
• NewCrop Purdue
• Plant List
• Plants for a future
• PROSEA on Pl@ntUse
• PROTA on Pl@ntUse
• Tela Botanica
• Useful Tropical Plants Database
• Wikipédia
• Wikiphyto