Buckwheat
Fagopyrum esculentum
The story
Buckwheat cultivation has a deep history, originating around the 6th millennium BC in the region of what is now the Yunnan Province in southwestern China. Over the millennia, it has spread globally, earning many regional names such as "Sarrasin" in French, "Echter Buchweizen" in German, and "蕎麦" in Japanese.
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- Family
- Polygonaceae
How to use it
Buckwheat is cultivated primarily for two practical purposes: harvesting its grain-like seeds for food, and utilizing the plant as an agricultural cover crop to protect and improve the soil.
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In the kitchen
Buckwheat is cultivated for its grain-like seeds, which are used as a food source. While common buckwheat is widely used, a related species called Fagopyrum tataricum is also raised as a food plant in Asia, though it has a more bitter flavor.
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About
Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), also known as common buckwheat, Japanese buckwheat and silverhull buckwheat, is a plant cultivated for its grain-like seeds and as a cover crop. A related and more bitter species, Fagopyrum tataricum, a domesticated food plant common in Asia, but not as common in Europe or North America, is also referred to as buckwheat.
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Buckwheat
- Slug
- buckwheat
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Genus
- Fagopyrum
- Species
- esculentum
- Category
- Grain
- Wikidata QID
- Q132734
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 48
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