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Culinary Herbs & Leaves
Spiny Amaranth
Amaranthus spinosus
Spiny amaranth (Amaranthus spinosus) is an annual herb of thirty to seventy centimetres, hairless and much branched, its alternate oblong leaves carried on long winged stalks with a pair of sharp spines at the base. Dense flower spikes crowd the leaf axils, ripening to small glossy black seeds. A plant of tropical Asia now found throughout the tropics, it grows wild on waste ground and along roadsides around houses, and can be cut at any time of year, then washed, chopped small and dried. Leaves and young shoots are boiled and eaten like other amaranths; the taste is bland and faintly sweet.
- Origin:
- Vietnam
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