Common name
English: Perennial buckwheat
German: Ausdauernder Buchweizen
Mandarin: 金荞 (jin qiao)
English: Perennial buckwheat
German: Ausdauernder Buchweizen
Mandarin: 金荞 (jin qiao)
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Polygonales (29)
Family: Polygonaceae (31)(family description)
Genus: Fagopyrum (2)
Epithet: abbreviata (Lehm.) Mansf. ex K.Hammer (2)
Synonyms: Coccoloba cymosa Lour., Fagopyrum chinense Raf., Fagopyrum cymosum (Trevir.) Meisn., Fagopyrum dibotrys (D.Don) H.Hara
abbreviata => shortened
chinense => of Chinese origin
cymosa => bearing cymes, more or less flattened flower heads blooming from the middle out
cymosum => bearing cymes, more or less flattened flower heads blooming from the middle out
dibotrys => two-bunched
Climate: tropical
Habit: herb
Flower colour: white
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