Orach
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Read about Orach in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Orach, or French spinach, is a pot-herb cultivated and used much like spinach. It is an annual, grows 5 to 6 feet high, has furrowed stems and arrow-shaped slightly crimped leaves of soft texture. The inflorescence suggests that of amarantus-like plants. The individual flowers are very small, devoid of petals, and greenish or reddish according to variety. For a technical description, see Atriplex hortensis, page 427. There are three main types of orach, based on the color of the leaves. The white variety is most commonly grown; the leaves are pale green, almost yellow. The red or dark red variety has stems and foliage of dark red color, which disappears in cooking; it is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental foliage plant under the name var. atrosanguinea. The green variety is perhaps the most vigorous type; the leaves are rounder than those of the white variety and less toothed. The seed is usually drilled into the open ground in early spring, and usually seedlings are not transplanted but thinned and allowed to stand in the row. The plants are used in their young state, being cooked after the manner of spinach or other "greens." They bear hot weather fairly well, but soon run to seed. Monthly successional sowings are therefore desirable. Orach is little grown in America.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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