Amaranth, also known as Chinese cuisine, is millet, and its height can reach 150 cm. Stems stout, green or red, usually branched when young, hairy or hairless. Leaf blade ovate, rhombic ovate or lanceolate, green or often red, purple or yellow, or partly green mixed with other colors, with blunt or sharp tip, wedge-shaped base, entire or wavy edge and no hair.

It likes warm and light, the optimum growth temperature is 23 ~ 27℃, and it is drought-resistant and salt-tolerant, and has low requirements for soil. Native to India, distributed in South Asia, Central Asia, Japan and other places.

The growth habit of China cuisine;

Amaranth likes warm climate, strong heat resistance and not cold tolerance. The optimum growth temperature is 23 ~ 27℃. Plants grow slowly below 20℃, and seeds germinate difficultly below 10℃. Amaranth is a high-temperature short-day crop, which is easy to blossom and bear fruit under high-temperature short-day conditions.

Spring cultivation, suitable temperature, long sunshine, late bolting, tender quality and high yield. Amaranth does not require much soil, but it grows well in alkaline soil. It has certain drought resistance, grows poorly in poorly drained fields, and sometimes escapes to the semi-wild.