Bietole Selvatiche

As all these beets look much alike in form, colour, a rich dark green, and leaf texture, and resemble their cultivated forms, there is less need to sort out their names, and no doubt about their uses which are identical with those of spinach and spinach beet. Good King Henry, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, a close relation of the wild beets with similar culinary uses, is perhaps more familiar to British and American cooks. For other American chenopods, see the book cited under Fernald and Kinsey in the Bibliography. Orache, Atriplex hortensis, is another close relation.