Tetragonia Tetragonioides

Taxonomy:       

Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophytes Class: Angiosperms Class: Eudicots Order: Caryophyllales Family: Aizoaceae Genus: Tetragonia Species: T.tetragonioides

             

Synonym:

Demidovia tetragonioides, Tetragonia expansa

How to identify it?

Tetragonia tetragonioides it is an annual herb, belonging to the family Aizoaceae , relatively dark green but completely covered with small, white, shiny, strongly branched papillae, with creeping stems up to 1 m long, succulent leaves,spirally arranged blade oval, flowers axillary,yellow

 

Type Of Plant	Life Cycle	Height	Flowering Time	Altitude
Herbaceous	Annual & biennial	30 to 60 cm	Jul to Sep	0  m

 

Mediterranean	Edible	Color	Abundance	Toxicity
Introduced into	Yes	Yellow	Common	No

 

Other Common Name:

Arabic	Berber/Targui	English	French	Other Name
		Tetragon	Epinard d‘été	New Zealand spinach

 

Related species:

 

§  Tetragonia acanthocarpa

§  Tetragonia arbuscula

§  Tetragonia arbusculoides