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Beta vulgaris
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Family:
CHENOPODIACEAE
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Citation: Beta vulgaris L., Sp. Pl. 222. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 5. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1185(830). 1925.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Beetroot, Chencheera, Neycheera
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Beetroot, Garden beet
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Description:
Annual to perennating stout herb, glabrous to hirsute, up to 100 cm long, decumbent to erect, branched and leafy, green to purplish-violaceous; roots slender to tuberous with sugar storage. Leaves usually up to 12 x 6 cm, petiolate; radical rosulate, ovate, cuneate to subcordate; cauline rhombic-oblong to linear-lanceolate. Floral clusters (1-) 2-4-flowered, arranged in long, slender, ± interrupted spikes, usually with smaller subtending leaves (bracts); bracteoles very small or aborted. Perianth herbaceous, green, 2-5 mm long, as long as or exceeding the diameter of the fruit, united and indurated below, usually incurved and ± keeled.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kollam, Thrissur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Native of Europe
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
Yes
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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