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By Arwadoo

Jammu& Kashmir, India

Please let me know the botanical name of this plant




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If those are the flowers in the bottom picture, this is not a plant I recognise.

15 Jul, 2011

 

It is Atriplex (hortensis I think). You can eat the leaves cooked like spinach and it seeds around. The lower picture is the seed head, Bamboo.

15 Jul, 2011

 

Ah, thanks Marshmallow.

15 Jul, 2011

 

Yes the leaves are cooked when young. It has a green leaf cutivar also. Thank u Marshmallow, The flowers are very small ,the picture shows a seed head.It matches
A. hortensis of Chenopodiaceae.

16 Jul, 2011

How do I say thanks?

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