Taxon:
Spinacia oleracea L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1027. 1753
Verified:
03/11/2004
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
spinach – French
épinard – German
Spinat – India
pinni – Italian
spinacio – Japanese Rōmaji
horenso – Portuguese
espinafre – Spanish
espinaca – Swedish
spenat – Transcribed Chinese
bo cai – Transcribed Korean
sigeumchi –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | only cult. |
6 | Other | | | | | probable origin s.w. Asia |
Cultivated
(only cult.)
Other
(probable origin s.w. Asia)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | vegetable | | Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:266. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Human food | vegetable | | Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications. |
Medicines | folklore | | Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa |