Buckwheat that buckwheat, the scientific name of Tartar buckwheat (Tartar, pronounced dádá, is a collective name for the ancient Chinese northern minorities), also known as buckwheat leaf seven, wild orchid buckwheat, buckwheat, buckwheat, spinach, oat, buckwheat. Than sweet buckwheat that buckwheat is much higher in nutritional value. Especially the content of bioflavonoids is 13.5 times the buckwheat.

Morphological features

Annual herbs. Stem erect, 30-70 cm tall, branched, green or purplish, with fine longitudinal ribs, one side with papillae, leaves broadly triangular, 2-7 cm long, both surfaces along the veins with papillae, the lower leaves with long petioles, the upper leaves are smaller with a short petiole; Stipule sheaths oblique, membranous, yellowish-brown, about 5 mm long. Inflorescences racemose, terminal or axillary, flowers widely spaced; bracts ovate, 2-3 mm long, 2-4-flowered in each bract, jointed at middle of pedicel; perianth 5-parted, white or light red, tepals elliptic, ca. 2 mm; stamens 8, shorter than perianth; styles 3-short, stigmas capitate. Achenes long ovate, 5-6 mm long, 3-angled and 3 longitudinally furrowed, upper angles acute, lower rounded and sometimes undulate-toothed, black-brown, lusterless, longer than persistent perianth. Flowering June-September, fruiting August-October.