Amaranthus Hypochondriacus Flower Garden

Red leaf amaranth amaranthus tricolor has especially nutritious foliage that tastes like slightly tangy spinach.

Amaranthus hypochondriacus flower garden. Hypochondriacus has purple leaves red flowers and white seeds. In mexico amaranth grain is puffed drizzled with sugar and eaten as a sweet treat called alegría. Burgundy also makes a nice microgreen with a subtly sweet flavor.

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Other common names prince s feather green thumb. In temperate regions it is cultivated as a half hardy annual. Molten fire and joseph s coat are popular cultivars of this species.

Flowering amaranth plants can still have their leaves harvested to eat but you may find that the flavor changes after the amaranth plant flowers. Leaves of some species amaranthus caudatus a. Amaranth tampala tassel flower flaming fountain fountain plant joseph s coat love lies bleeding molten flower prince s feather summer poinsettia.

Amaranths are both strikingly ornamental and practical. Originally endemic to mexico it is called quelite blero and quintonil in spanish. It matures in 50 days for a salad crop and 90 100 days for flowers and seeds.

In africa and el salvador like many other species in the family amaranthaceae it is valued as source of food. Genus amaranthus can be upright or spreading annuals or short lived perennials with simple leaves and tiny flowers borne in dense erect or pendulous catkin like inflorescences in summer and autumn. End of spring summer and or early autumn.