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The beet is a vegetable native to Europe and the Mediterranean—it's a type of root vegetable, meaning the main edible portion is the root that grows underground (though beet tops are also edible ...
Linnaeus regarded sea beet, chard and red beet as varieties (at that time, sugar beet and mangelwurzel had not been selected yet). In the second edition of Species Plantarum (1762), Linnaeus separated the sea beet as its own species, Beta maritima, and left only the cultivated beets in Beta vulgaris. [9]
The beetroot (British English) or beet (North American English) is the taproot portion of a Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris plant in the Conditiva Group. [1] The plant is a root vegetable also known as the table beet, garden beet, dinner beet, or else categorized by color: red beet or golden beet. It is also a leaf vegetable called beet greens ...
Cabernet Sauvignon grapes in Gaillac, France. The lists of cultivars in the table below are indices of plant cultivars, varieties, and strains.A cultivar is a plant that is selected for desirable characteristics that can be maintained by propagation.
Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel (from German Mangel/Mangold, "chard" and Wurzel, "root"), also called mangold, [1] mangel beet, [1] field beet, [2] fodder beet and (archaic) root of scarcity, [3] [4] [5] is a cultivated root vegetable. It is a variety of Beta vulgaris, [5] the same species that also contains the red beet (beetroot) and sugar ...
Beta vulgaris (beet and mangelwurzel) Brassica spp. (kohlrabi, rutabaga and turnip) Bunium persicum (black cumin) Burdock (Arctium, family Asteraceae) Carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) Celeriac (Apium graveolens rapaceum) Daikon – the large East Asian white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) Dandelion (Taraxacum) spp ...
Sea beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima) Beta is a genus in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae. The best known member is the common beet, Beta vulgaris, but several other species are recognised. Almost all have common names containing the word "beet".
Sea beet is an erect and sprawling perennial plant up to 80 centimetres (31 in) high with dark green, leathery, untoothed, shiny [2] leaves. The lower leaves are wavy and roughly triangular while the upper leaves are narrow and oval. Blooming in summer, the inflorescence is borne on a thick, fleshy grooved stem in a leafy spike.