BETA VULGARIS VAR CICLA PDF

Descriptions and articles about the Chard, scientifically known as Beta vulgaris var. cicla in the Encyclopedia of Life. Includes Ecology; Associations; Wiki. Beta vulgaris var. cicla Linn. 厚皮菜. Description from Flora of China. Root branched, not tuberlike. The leaves are used as a vegetable (spinach beet, Swiss . EPPO code: BEAVV; Preferred name: Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. cicla; Authority: (Linnaeus) Arcangeli. Notes. Beet cultivated as a.

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Beets are a food plant for the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species. The word “chard” descends from the fourteenth-century Cucla cardefrom Latin carduus meaning artichoke thistle or cardoonincluding the artichoke. Chard or Swiss chard Beta vulgaris subsp.

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Yellow-coloured garden beets are grown on a very small scale for home consumption. The roots of cultivated forms are dark red, white, or yellow and moderately to strongly swollen and fleshy subsp. Leaf vegetables Amaranthaceae Edible plants. The species description of Beta vulgaris was made in by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarumat the same time creating the genus Beta.

Chard is a biennial. Some of the numerous synonyms are Vulgais vulgaris subsp. A royal decree led to the first factory devoted to sugar extraction from beetroots being opened in KunernSilesia now Konary, Poland in Beta vulgaris beet is a plant which is included in Betoideae subfamily in the Amaranthaceae family.

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Zohary and Hopf note that beetroot is “linguistically well identified. The leaves and stems of young vukgaris are steamed briefly and eaten as a vegetable; older leaves and stems are stir-fried and have a flavour resembling taro leaves. Harvesting is a continuous process, as most species of chard produce three or more crops. Views Read Edit View history.

In the cultivars of the Flavescens-Group, the leaf stalks are large and often prepared separately from the leaf blade. The origin of the adjective “Swiss” is unclear, since the Mediterranean plant is not native to Switzerland.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Beet. Retrieved 19 January In Eastern Europe beet soup, such as cold borschis a popular dish.

Three subspecies are typically recognised. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The ancient Romans considered beets an important health food and an aphrodisiac. This is called beeturia. Cultivars with large, brightly coloured leaves are grown for decorative purposes. The midribs of Swiss chard are eaten boiled while the whole leaf blades are eaten as spinach beet.

Very small flowers sit in one- to three- rarely eight- flowered glomerules in the axils of short bracts vulharis in the upper half of the inflorescence without bracts. Chard belongs to the chenopodswhich are now mostly included in the family Amaranthaceae sensu lato.

It remains a widely cultivated commercial crop for producing table sugar, bsta part due to subsidies scaled to keep it competitive with tropical sugar cane. Look up chard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

In the second edition of “Species Plantarum”Linnaeus separated the sea beet as its own species, Beta maritimaand left only the cultivated beets in Beta vulgaris.

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By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikispecies. The roots and leaves of the beet have been used in traditional medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments.

This page was last edited on 5 December vulgarsi, at Chard is a spring harvest plant. The consumption of beets causes pink urine in some people.

Other pigments contained in beet are indicaxanthin and vulgaxanthins yellow to orange pigments known as betaxanthins.