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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 album is a fast-growing annual plant in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed . Common names include lamb's quarters , melde , goosefoot , wild spinach and fat-hen , though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium , for ...
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)
Chenopodium giganteum belongs to the same genus as quinoa or Chenopodium album. Many species of this genus have a long history of domestications as grain, vegetable or forage crops. [5] Therefore, genetic relationships and place of origin are hard to determine.