Packet of Quinoa - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 69774 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 131.01 CHENOPODIACEAE Chenopodium quinoa | Entry Book Number | 23.1992 | |
| Artefact Name | Packet of Quinoa | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Peru | TDWG Region | Peru | ||
| Parts Held | Packet of Quinoa | Geography Description | Peru | ||
| Uses | Packet of QuinoaUse: User: Man | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | RBG Kew Staff | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1991 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Produce of Peru, cultivated since 3000 BC in one of the highest farmed regions of the earth, the South American Andes, the ancient Incas called quinoa 'The Mother Grain' and revered it as sacred. It contains a higher protein content than mo, st other grains (around 14 to 15% compared to 7.5% for rice). | ||||