Amaranth, a common wild vegetable; mainly eat young tender stems and leaves greenish-brown, flowers are rare . Amaranth bloomed, its stems and leaves have been aging; inedible. Especially false horse tooth water pipe is easy to eat improperly caused by poisoning.

There are many kinds of horse chestnut, false horse chestnut and horse chestnut in the growth of morphology is very similar; false horse chestnut, leaves elliptic obovate to spatulate, rounded tip; flowers solitary in the leaf axils, the corolla blue, purple or white; capsule long ovate, apical acute, encapsulated in the persistent calyx; seeds ellipsoid, truncated, yellowish brown, the surface of longitudinal stripes.

False marsupials tend to grow near water, in wetlands or on sandy beaches, with a flowering period of 5 to 10 months; especially flowering marsupials should be avoided.