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Read about Beta in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Beta (ancient name). Chenopodiaceae. BeetRoot. Beet. Annuals in cultivation, or biennials by the wintering of the roots, grown for the thick edible roots, edible leaves, and ornamental foliage. Glabrous, mostly thick-rooted herbs, with alternate, entire or sinuate Lvs.: fls. perfect, bracted; perianth urn-shaped, 5-lobed, adhering at base to the ovary, becoming hardened in fr.; stamens 5 on a fleshy ring or disk; ovary partly inferior, in fr. covered by the withered and corky remains of the perianth; the fls. usually stand 2 or more together and cohere into a "seed" or "ball" that is more than 1-seeded.—The species of Beta are much confused, but probably all of them can be referred to a half-dozen species. Eu., N. Afr., Asia.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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