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  2. Quinoa - Wikipedia

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    Chenopodium quinoa is believed to have been domesticated in the Peruvian Andes from wild or weed populations of the same species. [27] There are non-cultivated quinoa plants (Chenopodium quinoa var. melanospermum) that grow in the area it is cultivated; these may either be related to wild predecessors, or they could be descendants of cultivated ...

  3. Chenopodioideae - Wikipedia

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    Food species comprise spinach (Spinacia oleracea), Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus), several Chenopodium species (quinoa, kañiwa, fat hen), orache (Atriplex spp.), and epazote (Dysphania ambrosioides). The name is Greek for goosefoot, the common name of a genus of plants having small greenish flowers.

  4. List of food plants native to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Quinoa is native only to a relatively small region of the Andes mountains in South America. Corn/Maize [2] (Zea †) Quinoa [3] (Chenopodium) Several (though not all) species of amaranth [4] Some species of wild rice ; Indian Corn (Flint Corn)

  5. Chenopodium - Wikipedia

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    Chenopodium is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoot, which occur almost anywhere in the world. [3] It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classification systems, notably the widely used Cronquist system, separate it and its relatives as Chenopodiaceae, [4] but this leaves the rest of the ...

  6. Category:Quinoa - Wikipedia

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  7. Category:Chenopodioideae - Wikipedia

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    Food species comprise Spinach (Spinacia oleracea), Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus), several Chenopodium species (Quinoa, Kañiwa, Fat Hen), Orache (Atriplex spp.), and Epazote (Dysphania ambrosioides). The name is Greek for goosefoot, the common name of a genus of plants having small greenish flowers.

  8. Neglected and underutilized crop - Wikipedia

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    Landscape with quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), Cachilaya [clarification needed], Bolivia, Province La Paz, Lake Titicaca seen in background.Three crops: maize, wheat, and rice, account for approximately 50% of the world's consumption of calories and protein, [6] and about 95% of the world's food needs are provided by just 30 species of plants. [7]

  9. Category:Chenopodium - Wikipedia

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