Beta

The kind Beta belongs to the family of the Chénopodiacée S, tribe of the Cyclolobae .

Common nouns: white beet (white beet), beet.

Near to the kinds Chenopodium (chénopode) and Spinacia (spinach), this kind includes/understands 11 species. They are herbaceous plants, more or less fleshy, with reddish or greenish flowers, whose floral pole can reach approximately 1,5 m in height.

A species is largely cultivated throughout the world: Beta vulgaris L. This species includes/understands very many varieties which were selected either for their root fleshy and rich in sugar, or for their sheets at very developed coasts; they are divided into four types:

sugar Beet;
fodder Beet;
pot Beet;
White beet or white beet.

The sugar beet acquired a very great economic importance, thanks to the production of Sucre (Saccharose) of which it is the second source in the world after the Canne with sugar.

The maritime White beet ( Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima ) is a wild plant pushing in seaside. It would be the ancestor of cultivated white beets.

List species

Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris L.
Beta adanensis A. Pamukc. ex Aellen
Beta atriplicifolia Rouy
Beta lomatogona Fischer and C. Meyer
Beta chick Wood. and Heldr.
Beta patellaris Moq.
Beta patula Aiton
Beta procumbens L.
Beta trigyna Waldst. and Kit.
Beta trojana A. Pamukc. ex Aellen
Beta vulgaris L.

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