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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. [26] 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 ...
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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.
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 ...
The earliest cultivated plant in North America is the bottle gourd, remains of which have been excavated at Little Salt Spring, Florida dating to 8000 BCE. [7] Squash (Cucurbita pepo var. ozarkana) is considered to be one of the first domesticated plants in the Eastern Woodlands, having been found in the region about 5000 BCE, though possibly not domesticated in the region until about 1000 BCE.
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In North America, the term usually refers to Chenopodium berlandieri (pitseed goosefoot). The name "lambsquarters" is thought to derive from the name of the English harvest festival Lammas quarter . This festival was associated both with sacrificial lambs and with the vegetable Chenopodium album .
After phylogenetic research, this group of species had to be separated from genus Chenopodium, that would otherwise have been polyphyletic. [2] The genus Chenopodiastrum belongs to the same tribe as Chenopodium, Tribus Atripliceae. [2] Chenopodiastrum consists of 5 species, [2] occurring in Eurasia, North Africa, and North America. [3]