Showing Food Malabar spinach
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| Name | Malabar spinach | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Basella alba | ||||||||||
| Description | Basella alba, or Malabar spinach, Malabar nightshade, Alugbati or Alabati in Philippines, (also Phooi leaf, Red vine spinach, Creeping spinach, Climbing spinach, Indian spinach, Philippine Spinach, Asian Spinach) is a perennial vine found in the tropics where it is widely used as a leaf vegetable. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00404 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Vegetables | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Leaf vegetables | ||||||||||
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| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
| Order | Caryophyllales | ||||||||||
| Family | Basellaceae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Basella | ||||||||||
| Species | alba | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 192210 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Basella alba | ||||||||||
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| Content Reference | — Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004). — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. | ||||||||||