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Chenopodiaceae Goosefoot Family

Chenopodiaceae Goosefoot Family. Leaves of orach. Organic Seed May 2004. Family characteristics. Pollination-wind Both dioecious and perfect Seed type - cluster and multigerm Seed maturity-indeterminate when 60-70% is mature then harvest windrow and dry seed.

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Chenopodiaceae Goosefoot Family

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  1. ChenopodiaceaeGoosefoot Family Leaves of orach Organic Seed May 2004

  2. Family characteristics • Pollination-wind • Both dioecious and perfect • Seed type - cluster and multigerm • Seed maturity-indeterminate • when 60-70% is mature then harvest • windrow and dry seed

  3. SpinachSpinacia oleracea L. • Origin: Central Asia • Dioecious, outcrossing, mainly wind pollinated • Importance: Next to cabbage, spinach is the most important of the vegetables grown for greens or pot herbs in the U.S. • Season, seeding to harvest: 6 to 8 weeks. • Use: As pot herbs; shipped fresh, canned, frozen.

  4. Teton Avon Hybrid

  5. Beet, Mangelwurzel, Sugar Beet, Swiss ChardBeta vulgaris • Origin: Mediterranean, from Greek times • Biennial • Outcrossing, perfect flowers, protandrous • Wind pollinated

  6. Harvesting Mangels for feed (Beta vulgaris vulgaris) at Steve’s farm Mangels of up to 63 lbs were harvested at Lulu Is. BC in 1900 (Stevenson Museum BC)

  7. A mangel up close

  8. Swiss chardBeta vulgaris cicla

  9. Orach, mountain spinachAtriplex hortensisOrigin Mediterranean: Greeks used Mariquita farm, Hollister CA

  10. Lamb’s-quartersChenopodium album • Weed • Leaves can be eaten • SW Native Amer. Seed ground • Monoecious- Male and female flowers in same plant • Insect or wind pollinated

  11. Does this look familiar?

  12. Good King HenryChenopodium bonicus-henricus • Also “fat hen plant” • In English Gardens • Perrenial, hardy • Outbreeding

  13. QuinoaChenopodium quinoa

  14. Quinoa grain

  15. Quinoa variability

  16. Quinoa harvesting

  17. Nestle interested in large scale production of quinoa

  18. Epizote, boldoChenopodium ambrosiodes • Weed in Latin America • Used as tea for human parasites • Anti-nematode properties Plants of Hawaii

  19. Chenopodium berlandieri • Used by Native Americans, pre corn’s arrival

  20. Eastern USDomesticatedfour crops1-2000 BC: Squash Chenopodium berlandieri Sunflower Marshelder

  21. AmaranthaceaePigweedsAmaranthus sp. • A. retroflexus (redroot) • Male and female flowers on same plant • Outcrossing, wind-pollinated Www.ipmdavis.ucd.edu

  22. AmaranthusAmaranthus hypochondiacusA. cruentusOrigin:Andes

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