New Zealand spinach
| Noun | 1. | New Zealand spinach - coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves |
new zealand spinach
New Zealand spinach,
succulent annual (Tetragonia expansa) of Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and S South America, grown for the edible leaves. The plant grows prostrate, often spreading to cover several feet. It is cooked like spinach. It is in the same family as the ice plantice plant,low, fleshy plant (Cryophytum crystalinum) of warm, dry, barren regions. It is cultivated chiefly as a curiosity because of its leaves, densely coated with small, glistening, bladder-shaped hairs. The ice plant and many other related herbs (e.g.
..... Click the link for more information. . New Zealand spinach is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Caryophyllales, family Aizoaceae.
new zealand spinach
New Zealand Spinach
(Tetragonia tetragonoides, formerly T. expansa), a vegetable of the Aizoaceae family. It is raised as an annual crop for its fleshy leaves, which are rich in vitamin C.
New Zealand spinach
- noun
Synonyms for New Zealand spinach
noun coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers
Synonyms
- Tetragonia expansa
- Tetragonia tetragonioides
Related Words
- genus Tetragonia
- Tetragonia
- herb
- herbaceous plant