Chenopodium Quinoa
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Chenopodium Quinoa, Willd. Quinoa. Erect, stout, st. furrowed, 4-5 ft.: lvs. triangular-ovate, sinuate, long-petioled, angulate-pinnatifid, glaucous: fls. small and green, in dense axillary and terminal farinose clusters arranged in panicles: seeds very large. W. slope of the Andes. B.M. 3641.—A very important plant in W. S. Amer., the seeds being used as food. There are white- and red- fruited forms. Sometimes cult, in this country as a curiosity. Allied to C. album, the common pigweed. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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