Atriplex carnosa — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Leaves, Seeds

Edible Parts: Leaves Seed Edible Uses: Leaves - cooked and used as a spinach. Seed - cooked. It can be ground into a meal and used as a thickener in soups etc, or can be mixed with cereal flours to enrich the protein content when making bread, cakes, biscuits etc.

Known Hazards

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant.

North America, USA,

Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, St Vincent

How to Identify

Annual herb reaching 0.9 m tall. Flowers July to September with seeds ripening August to October. Wind-pollinated and monoecious. Tolerates light sandy and medium loamy soils, prefers well-drained conditions and poor soils. Adapts to mildly acid through very alkaline and saline soils. Requires full sun and tolerates both dry and moist conditions plus drought.

How to Grow

We have very little information on this species and do not know if it will be hardy in Britain, though it should be possible to grow it as a spring-sown annual. It might be no more than a synonym for A. patula. The following notes are based on the general needs of the genus. Succeeds in full sun in any well-drained but not too fertile soil. Most species in this genus tolerate saline and very alkaline soils.

Propagation: Seed - sow April/May in situ. Germination is usually rapid.

Medicinal Uses

None known

Other Uses

None known Special Uses

Wikipedia

Annual herb reaching 0.9 m tall. Flowers July to September with seeds ripening August to October. Wind-pollinated and monoecious. Tolerates light sandy and medium loamy soils, prefers well-drained conditions and poor soils. Adapts to mildly acid through very alkaline and saline soils. Requires full sun and tolerates both dry and moist conditions plus drought.