The genus Fagopyrum is in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae. It includes some important food plants, such as F. esculentum (buckwheat) and F. tataricum (Tartary buckwheat). The genus is native to the Indian subcontinent, much of Indochina, and central and southeastern China. Species have been widely introduced elsewhere, throughout the Holarctic and parts of Africa and South America.[2]
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Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) or common buckwheat is a flowering plant in the knotweed family Polygonaceae cultivated for its grain-like seeds and...
Fagopyrum tataricum, also known as Tartary buckwheat, green buckwheat, ku qiao, Tatar buckwheat,[citation needed] or bitter buckwheat, is a domesticated...
Fagopyrum cymosum, also known as tall buckwheat, is a domesticated plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, for animal feed, and as an ornamental plant...
defined. For example, buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) has sometimes been included in the genus as Polygonum fagopyrum. Former genera such as Polygonella...
jelly is made from it and sold commercially. The seeds of two species of Fagopyrum, known as buckwheat, are eaten in the form of groats or used to make flour...
Fagopyrum tibeticum is a species of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae endemic to Tibet. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Parapteropyrum...
constituent of the dye quercitron. It can be found in Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) and in oaks species like the North American white oak (Quercus...
eating soba arose in the Edo period. The word soba (蕎麦) means "buckwheat" (Fagopyrum esculentum). The full name for buckwheat noodles is soba-kiri (蕎麦切り "sliced...
Knapp M, Kreft I (November 1999). "Extraction of rutin from buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentumMoench) seeds and determination by capillary electrophoresis"...
nature of the S-locus has been shown in Primula , Gelsemium, Linum , Fagopyrum , Turnera, and Nymphoides. The presence of the S-locus results in changes...
Leaf apex is rounded. Large white flowers. Only occurs in North America. Fagopyrum tataricum - Annual. No milky sap. Fallopia convolvulus - Small greenish...
in cutch, in Persian berries (Rhamnus cathartica), buckwheat leaves (Fagopyrum esculentum), Zante fustic wood (Rhus cotinus), and in rose petals. Chemically...
rearers and traders, cultivating land in the valley with common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) and potatoes. After the migration of the 1970s, cultivated...
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