Spinacia tetrandra
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Description
Spinacia tetrandra is a cultivated Mediterranean herb in the family Amaranthaceae (also historically placed in Chenopodiaceae).
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Edible Uses
The leaves are eaten.
Distribution
It is a Mediterranean plant.
Where It Grows
Armenia, Caucasus, Kurdistan, Mediterranean, Turkey, Türkiye,
Other Information
It is cultivated.
Notes
Also put in the family Chenopodiaceae.
References (4)
- Ertug, F., 2000, An Ethnobotanical Study in Central Anatolia (Turkey). Economic Botany Vol. 54. No. 2. pp. 155-182
- Ertug, F, Yenen Bitkiler. Resimli Türkiye Florası -I- Flora of Turkey - Ethnobotany supplement
- Rivera, D. et al, 2006, Gathered Mediterranean Food Plants - Ethnobotanical Investigations and Historical Development, in Heinrich M, Müller WE, Galli C (eds): Local Mediterranean Food Plants and Nutraceuticals. Forum Nutr. Basel, Karger, 2006, vol 59, pp 18–74
- Zeven, A. C. & de West, J. M. J., 1982, Dictionary of cultivated plants and their regions of diversity. Wageningen. p 82
