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Garden orache

Atriplex hortensis

Garden orache

About

Atriplex hortensis, known as garden orache, red orache or simply orache, mountain spinach, French spinach, or arrach, is a species of plant in the amaranth family used as a leaf vegetable that was common before spinach; it is still grown as a warm-weather alternative to spinach. For many years, it was classified in the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae), but it has now been absorbed into the Amaranthaceae. It is Eurasian, native to Asia and Europe, and widely naturalized in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Ecology

How it lives

Propagated by
Seed
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Name
Atriplex hortensis
Slug
atriplex-hortensis
Kingdom
Plantae
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Atriplex
Species
hortensis
Wikidata QID
Q158505
Propagule type
seed
Container suitable
No
Indoor suitable
No
OSSI pledged
No
Hazard level
1
Data completeness
43

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