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Beta trigyna (beet)

Synonyms: Beta cicla; Beta cycla

Infraspecies

Beta trigyna f. glaberrima
Beta trigyna f. trigyna
Beta trigyna foliosa
Beta trigyna trigyna

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Height [1]  35 inches (0.9 m)
Width [1]  18 inches (0.45 m)
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Predators

Pleospora bjoerlingii[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe betae[2]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Jorrit 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