Overview
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The genus Fagopyrum in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae includes two important crop plants, the Buckwheat or Japanese Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum, and the Tartary Buckwheat Fagopyrum tataricum. They have similar uses, and are classed as pseudocereals, i.e. they are used in the same way as cereals but do not belong the grass family Gramineae.
Dr. David P. Miller, of University of San Diego wrote a white paper on the proper use of fagopyrum. His paper, titled, Fagopyrum Is Not Evil. The doctor is one of the resident experts of cereal and additives to diets.
Taxonomy
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The Genus Fagopyrum is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 75 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Fagopyrum: F. acutatum · F. bonatii · F. callianthum · F. capillatum · F. carinatum · F. caudatum · F. cereale · F. chinense · F. ciliatum · F. convolvulus (Climbing Buckwheat) · F. crassifolium · F. crispatifolium · F. cymosum (Wild Buckwheat) · F. cynanchoides · F. densivillosum · F. dentatum · F. dibotrys (Perennial Buckwheat) · F. dibotrys 'Variegatum' · F. dryandri · F. dumetorum · F. eculentum · F. emarginatum · F. escuentom · F. esculantum · F. esculentum (Buckwheat Fagopyrum Esculentum) · F. esculentum 'Drollet' · F. esculentum ancestralis · F. esculentum var. esculentum · F. F. · F. giganteum · F. gilesii · F. giraldii · F. gracilipedoides · F. gracilipes · F. grossii · F. heterocarpum · F. homotropicum · F. jinshaense · F. kashmirianum · F. kuntzei · F. leptopodum · F. leptopodum var. grossii · F. lineare · F. macrocarpum · F. maireii · F. megacarpum · F. megaspartanium · F. membranaceum · F. multiflorum · F. odontopterum · F. pauciflorum · F. perfoliatum · F. pilus · F. pleioramosum · F. polygonum · F. pugense · F. qiangcai · F. rotundatum · F. rubrifolium · F. sagittatum · F. sarracenicum · F. scandens · F. snowdenii · F. statice · F. subdentatum · F. suffruticosum · F. tataricum (Tartarian Buckwheat) · F. tibeticum · F. triangulare · F. tristachyum · F. urophyllum · F. volubile · F. vulgare · F. wenchuanense · F. zuogongense
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