Yes Ushadi It tastes different, slightly tangy and much softer. Here are some shots
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Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>wrote: > Thank you Gurcharanji > > but do you mean all the spinach I have been eating for the last few > decades in various continents is a variety of Beet greens? > > they (spinach I eat) look and feel and taste different from beet greens > > I dont have pictures of beet greens nor of their flowers so cant argue > this point > > I 'll have to keep an open mind > > but in our junior botany id classes way back when this was indeed Palang > shaak... the leaf shape as seen in fig 1 (4159) seems to be of palang > shaak... > > well ... learning all the time... > > usha di > > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ushadi >> I fear this may not be Spinacia oleracea. The spinach sold in warmer >> parts of India is actually bet leaf Beta vulgaris var. bengalensis Roxb. >> now correctly known as *B. vulgaris* subsp. *maritima* (L.) Arch. >> >> Being very familiar with spinach in Kashmir (Palak), we used to call >> leafy Beta vulgaris var. maritima as Punjabi Palak in Kashmir. I was >> surprised, therefore, when this Punjabi Palak (word Hindustani or Punjabi >> is commonly used in Kashmir for any thing belonging to outside Kashmir) was >> called here in Delhi as Spinach and taught in practical classes (both >> Physiology and Taxonomy practical) as Spinacia oleracea. It took me some >> time to convince the teachers here. In fact in one College I went as >> external examiner, this plant was given to students. I tried to convince >> teachers, and finding that some senior teachers won't agree, I finally told >> them: Ok if you think this is Spinacia oleracea, students should show me >> the characters of this. Luckily no one disagreed with me there after. >> By the way two are very different: leaves are hastate, flowers >> unisexual, fruiting perianth enlarging, becoming hardened and often spiny >> in Spinacia oleracea. >> In Beta vulgraris, leaves are narrowed at base, flowers bisexual, >> perianth not hardened in fruit. >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> 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 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Ushadi Micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> *Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week: UD 002 : Spinacia oleracea, >>> bolting from a local grower* >>> >>> >>> This is Spinach *Spinacia oleracea, * we all eat* it >>> * >>> >>> * >>> * >>> >>> And love and hate to some extent >>> >>> >>> Astringent taste leaves moth dry >>> >>> >>> Hence the Italian took to adding creamy sauces to spinach I think… >>> >>> there is no hard evidence for and against it… its just my fancy… >>> >>> I love to think that that’s why most spinach I ate in Italy or Greece >>> >>> was almost 70percent of the time smothered in creamy white sauces… >>> >>> and if not in sauces , in garlic… >>> >>> >>> Its leaves are rich in micro-nutrients such as those that are >>> synthesized by the leaves… >>> >>> Vit K, B6, B2, Vit A and to some extent C… and can be a rich source of >>> Magnesium, >>> >>> Selenium, manganese if the soil its being grown in is not overused and >>> undernourished ; >>> >>> and Iron, since most soil is usually not too deficient in Iron in the >>> gangetic plains I am told… >>> >>> >>> >>> *This example I am showing is Bolting, ie flowering, not considered >>> edible* >>> >>> * by this time, ie past its most desirable stage. It tastes bitter, I >>> can vouch >>> * >>> >>> *for it and quite fibrous. I like the small greenish white flowers >>> though . * >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Usha di >>> =========== >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
