The New Zealand Spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides, sometimes classified as Tetragonia expansa) was discovered by Captain Cook on the shores of New Zealand. It was immediately picked, cooked, and pickled to help fight scurvy, and taken with the crew. It spread when the explorer and botanist Joseph Banks took a viable plant back to London during the latter half of the 19th century. It is also known as Warrigal Greens, Botany Bay Spinach, and Cook's Cabbage. Tetragonia tetragonioides Habit Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) [1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Achatocarpaceae Aizoaceae (Fig-marigold family) Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) Ancistrocladaceae Asteropeiaceae Barbeuiaceae Basellaceae (basella family) Cactaceae (cactus family) Caryophyllaceae (carnation family) Dioncophyllaceae Droseraceae (sundew family) Drosophyllaceae Frankeniaceae Molluginaceae (carpetweed family) Nepenthaceae Nyctaginaceae (four-oclock family) Physenaceae Phytolaccaceae (pokeweed family) Plumbaginaceae (plumbago family) Polygonaceae (buckwheat family) Portulacaceae (purslane family) Rhabdodendraceae... Genera See text The family Aizoaceae Rudolphi (Fig-marigold family) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing some 126 genera and about 1100 species. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... Scurvy is a disease that results from insufficient intake of vitamin C and leads to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums and bleeding from almost all mucous membranes. ... Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks (February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was the English naturalist and botanist on Cooks first great voyage (1768-1771) and some 75 species bear Banks name. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The New Zealand Spinach is native to the continent of Australia, and prefers a moist environment for growth. It is grown for the edible leaves. The plant grows flat on the ground, and can be used as food or an ornamental plant for ground cover. As its name signifies, it has similar flavor and texture properties to ordinary spinach, and is cooked like spinach. It can be found in temperate climates as an invasive plant in North and South America, and has been cultivated along the East Asian rim. It thrives in hot weather, and is considered an heirloom vegetable. Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller shows land mass with minimal distortion as only one continuous continent A continent (Latin continere, to hold together) is a large continuous land mass. ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... An ornamental is a plant variety that is grown for its beauty (in its end use), rather than commercial or other value. ... Spinach (Spinacia oleracea, Amaranthaceae) is a vegetable grown for its edible leaves. ... Purple flowers of the highly invasive Pattersons Curse infest the Warrumbungle National Park in New South Wales, Australia. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and in population after Eurasia and Africa. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... East Asia can be defined in either cultural or geographic terms. ... Only a few of the many varieties of potato are commercially grown; others are heirlooms. ...

The leaves of the plant are 3-15 cm long, triangular in shape and bright green. The leaves are thick, and covered with tiny papillae that look like waterdrops on the top and bottom of the leaves. The flowers of the plant are yellow, and the fruit is a small, hard pod covered with small horns. The plant is a halophyte and grows well in saline-rich ground. It will continue to produce greens from May to October. Few insects will bother New Zealand spinach, even slugs and snails do not seem to bother it. This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... A halophyte is a plant that naturally grows where it is affected by salinity in the root area or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs, and seashores. ... Salinity is the saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water. ... Slugs are gastropods without or with very small shells, in contrast with snails from which they evolved, which have a prominent shell. ... Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) The name snail applies to most members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells. ...

Cultivation

The thick, irregularly-shaped seeds should be planted just after the last spring frost. Before planting, the seeds should be soaked for 12 hours in cold water, or 3 hours in warm water. Seeds should be planted 5 mm deep (or about 1/2 inch), and spaced 15-30 cm apart. Sprouts will emerge in 10-20 days. A SeeD is a term given to mercenaries trained and employed by Balamb Garden in the Final Fantasy VIII video game. ... Blades of grass coated in frost. ...