Species
Buckwheat
Fagopyrum esculentum
Varieties
1 entriesFagopyrum esculentum is a fast-growing summer annual in Polygonaceae. Branched stems carry dense clusters of small white flowers.
Botanical characteristics
Despite the buckwheat name, it is botanically separate from wheat and other grasses in Poaceae. Flower structure and family identity help place the reference correctly in a mixed botanical seed range.
A flowering annual in Polygonaceae
Buckwheat is supplied as a sowing-seed reference to resellers and garden centres.
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Species profile
Botanical details
- Botanical name
- Fagopyrum esculentum
- Common names
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- alforfón, almindelig boghvede, blé noir, boekweit, bokvete, bouquette, bovete, buchweizen, buckwheat, common buckwheat, echter buchweizen, faggina, fagopiro, garden buckwheat, grano saraceno, grano sarraceno, grano turco, gre&ccaron
- icha kul'turnaja, gre&ccaron
- icha posevnaja, gwenith y bwch, gwenith yr hydd, harilik tatar, heidekorn, japanese buckwheat, memil, mourisco, pohanka obecná, qiao mai, renouée, renouée sarrasin, rievdneguoita, sarasin, sarrasin, sarrasin comestible, sarrasin commun, silverhull buckwheat, soba, sējas griķis, sėjamasis grikis, trigo-mourisco, trigo-sarraceno, vanligt bovete, 메밀
- Synonyms
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- Fagopyrum cereale, Fagopyrum dryandrii, Fagopyrum emarginatum, Fagopyrum esculentum subsp. ancestralis, Fagopyrum esculentum var. emarginatum, Fagopyrum esculentum var. pyramidatum, Fagopyrum esculentum var. vulgare, Fagopyrum macropterum var. emarginatum, Fagopyrum macropterum var. obtusum, Fagopyrum polygonum, Fagopyrum sarracenicum, Fagopyrum vulgare, Helxine fagopyrum, Kunokale carneum, Phegopyrum emarginatum, Phegopyrum esculentum, Polygonum cereale, Polygonum emarginatum, Polygonum fagopyrum, Polygonum nepalense, Polygonum pyramidatum
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Genus
- Fagopyrum
- Species
- Fagopyrum esculentum