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Amarantus gangeticus, Linn. Usually a lower plant, 3 ft. or less and often only 1 ft., with thin, ovate-pointed Lvs., and fls. in short, glomerate, interrupted spikes, both terminal and axillary. Tropics.—Very variable. Cult, by Amer. Chinese (Fig. 185) as a pot-herb under the name of hon-toi-moi, with green Lvs. (Bailey, Bull. 67, Cornell Exp. Sta.). Various dwarf and 'compact bedding forms are common. Used more for foliage than for fl.-panicles. Var. melancholicus, Voss (A. melancholicus, Linn.). Lvs. variously colored, sometimes mostly in two colors (A. bicolor, Hort.), and also in three colors (?. tricolor, Hort.): Lvs. long-petioled, broadly to narrowly lanceolate. Here belong the Joseph's Coat group of the bedding amaranths.
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->

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