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Fagopyrum esculentum (fagopyrum; buckwheat; common buckwheat)

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Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Mid Summer
Drought Tolerance [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Monoecious
Frost Free Days [1]  1 year
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Fall
Growth Rate [1]  Rapid
Hazards [2]  This plant has caused photosensitivity in some people, only the dehusked grain is considered to be safe.
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Flies
Propagation [1]  Seed
Root Depth [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Scent [2]  The flowers have a pleasant sweet honey smell.
Seeds Per [1]  20000 / lb (44092 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  A very good green manure plant, it can be used to reclaim badly degraded soils and subsoils; A blue dye is obtained from the stems; A brown dye is obtained from the flowers;
Flower Color [1]  White
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Flower Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [2]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
Width [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
Screening - Summer [1]  Dense
Screening - Winter [1]  Moderate
View Plants For A Future Record : Fagopyrum esculentum

Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe polygoni (Beet Powdery Mildew)[9]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Diets of Hangul Deer Cervus elaphus hanglu (Cetartiodactyla: Cervidae) in Dachigam National Park, Kashmir, India, G. Mustafa Shah, Ulfat Jan, Bilal A. Bhat & Fayaz A. Ahangar, Journal of Threatened Taxa | July 2009 | 1(7): 398-400
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0