The Red Orach (Atriplex Hortensis) is a very impressive and decorative vegetable plant. Because of its high growth and the great bright red colouring of the leaves, stalks, and blossoms, it rather looks like a decorative plant than like a leaf vegetable variety. The orach generally belongs to the old vegetable varieties or also to the rediscovered vegetable rarities. There's documentary proof of its cultivation in the Central European region as early as around 800 AC in the bequest of Charlemagne and slightly later also with Hildegard von Bingen. What's harvested is the leaves that can either be eaten raw as a salad or boiled like spinach. With its entry into the vegetable garden in the 16th century, spinach was substantially involved in why orach has been forgotten. Nevertheless, its leaves taste more tender and milder and it's much more vigorous and more fertile. The orach doesn't only appeal to the kitchen but is also quite noteworthy as a medicinal plant, dye plant, and biomass supplier.
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