Fruit & Vegetable Week- Spinach

[mani nair]

Dear friends,

Sending photos of Spinach growing in a farm near our house.

Place :  Dombivli
Date  :  December 2010

Regards,

Mani.

[tanay bose]

One of my favorite vegetable

tanay

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Tanay which spinach is your favourite?. one grown or sold in Indian tropics, palak for many of us, the beet leaf 

                                                   or

Spinach grown in temperate regions, smaller plant with hastate leaves, the real spinach

and by the way, which one do you think above one is?

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[tanay bose]

Yes I like the green spinach and not red spinach

tanay

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for botanical name please.

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[J.M. Garg]

A reply:

"i think this plant Atriplex sp from Chenopodiaceae family
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[Balkar Arya]

Spinacea oleracea I THINK

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[Gurcharan Singh]

This I suppose is our so called spinach of warm climates, actually beet leaf, Beta vulgaris var. bengalensis, now correctly known as Beta vulagaris var. maritima. This is the Palak grown and sold in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana etc.

    Spinacea oleracea, the real spinach (palak) of colder climates is a much different plant, much shorter, with hastate leaves and unisexual flowers.

http://www.pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?LatinName=Spinacia+oleracea

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spinacia_oleracea_(Breedblad_scherpzaad)_in_Italy.jpg

http://www.lookfordiagnosis.com/images.php?term=Spinacia%20Oleracea&photo_id=3770019370&lang=1

http://www.lookfordiagnosis.com/images.php?term=Spinacia%20Oleracea&photo_id=3770020178&lang=1

http://www.lookfordiagnosis.com/images.php?term=Spinacia%20Oleracea&photo_id=3770019788&lang=1

     No wonder you will find numerous photographs of Beta vulgaris var. maritima labelled as Spinacea oleracea. Before I came to Delhi, many students were being given specimens of Beta vulgaris as Spinacea oleracea for taxonomy and physiology experiments.

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Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
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[Balkar Arya]

Wonderfull information Sir
Thanks for throwing light on the matter