Spinacia tetrandra

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Leaves

The leaves are eaten.

It is a Mediterranean plant.

Armenia, Caucasus, Kurdistan, Mediterranean, Turkey, Türkiye,

Countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus, Algeria, Egypt, Spain, France, Greece, Croatia, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Monaco, Montenegro, Malta, Slovenia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey

Spinacia tetrandra is a cultivated Mediterranean herb in the family Amaranthaceae (also historically placed in Chenopodiaceae).

It is cultivated.

Also put in the family Chenopodiaceae.

References (4)

Ertug, F., 2000, An Ethnobotanical Study in Central Anatolia (Turkey). Economic Botany Vol. 54. No. 2. pp. 155-182
Ertug, F, Yenen Bitkiler. Resimli Türkiye Florası -I- Flora of Turkey - Ethnobotany supplement
Rivera, D. et al, 2006, Gathered Mediterranean Food Plants - Ethnobotanical Investigations and Historical Development, in Heinrich M, Müller WE, Galli C (eds): Local Mediterranean Food Plants and Nutraceuticals. Forum Nutr. Basel, Karger, 2006, vol 59, pp 18–74
Zeven, A. C. & de West, J. M. J., 1982, Dictionary of cultivated plants and their regions of diversity. Wageningen. p 82