Buckwheat (cereal)

Buckwheat
Fagopyrum esculentum
Traditional classification
Reign :	Plantae
:	Magnoliophyta
:	Magnoliopsida
:	Polygonal
:	Polygonaceae
:	Fagopyrum
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench,
:	Caryophyllales
:	Polygonaceae
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buckwheat, called too buckwheat, is one annual of the family of Polygonacées, cultivated for its consumed in human and animal. It is comparable with .

Scientific name: Fagopyrum esculentum Moench, family of Polygonacées.

Common nouns: buckwheat, buckwheat, corn of cruelty, bucail, of: Buchweisen, in buckwheat, be: trigo-sarraceno, it: fagopiro, grano sarraceno?

Description

Annual plant with stem drawn up, from 20 to 70 cm in height, with sheets in form of c?ur reversed, rather soft. The higher sheets are sessile while the lower sheets have a rather long petiole. The flowers, small, of color white or pink, are grouped in tight bunches. They carry 8 cheesecloths and 3 styles. The fruits are with three angles, which contain only one seed. Their maturation is very spread out, which makes harvest rather delicate.

Distribution

Plant originating in of the North-East (, ), which was spread by the culture in with XVI^E century.

Formerly very cultivated in the areas with poor and acid grounds, in Central Europe, in , in like in (Brittany, , ), buckwheat is a culture in the process of disappearance today.

Use

• Human consumption: the seeds are processed into used for the clothes industry of , as well as Japanese pastes ().
• Animal feeds

• Plant mellifère

Buckwheat seeds for consumption.
(photo Christophe Moustier)

Close species

Other species of the kind Fagopyrum are also cultivated, in particular:

• Fagopyrum tataricum, the buckwheat of Tartarie,
• Fagopyrum emarginatum, the buckwheat of ,