Chenopodium

Chenopodium is also known as fat-hen, Late-flowering Goosefoot, and Lambs-quarters. It is the member of Amaranth Family, formerly known as Goosefoot Family – Chenopodiaceae. “Chenopodium is the flower” buy wholesale from Holland, the flowering season of Chenopodium are June-September. The Dutch company «Astra Fund Holland BV» engaged in the wholesale of plants so you can easily get these from there.

These plants have annual herbs growing form. The height of the plant is unremarkably 10 – 100 cm, it stem is upright, branched, hard and usually red-streaked. “Chenopodium” buy wholesale, the seeds and leaves of the fat-hen are used as both the food and the fodders.

The leaves of the Chenopodium are greyish-green, alternate, trilateral or diamond-shaped and are covered with the glandular hairs (‘coarse-grained’). It leaves also have blade-margins sparsely toothed, teeth blunt and upper leaves with entire borders.

There is a difficulty to distinguish between the species within the genus Chenopodium. A microscope is usually utilized for identification as Chenopodium includes several varieties. The texture of the seed-coat of Chenopodium is one the important distinguishing characters.

Genus Chenopodium’s scientific name was derived from the Greek words ‘chen’ and ‘podiom’ which means goose and small foot. Possibly this may be the reason that English name of many Chenopodium species is goosefoot.