Amaranth

Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth, is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants. Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants. Most of the species from Amaranthus are summer annual weeds and are commonly referred to as pigweed.Catkin-like cymes of densely packed flowers grow in summer or autumn. Approximately 60 species are recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to green or gold. Members of this genus share many characteristics and uses with members of the closely related genus Celosia.

"Amaranth" derives from Greek ἀμάραντος (amarantos), "unfading," with the Greek word for "flower," ἄνθος (anthos), factoring into the word's development as "amaranth." The more accurate "amarant" is an archaic variant.

Taxonomy

Amaranthus shows a wide variety of morphological diversity among and even within certain species. Although the family (Amaranthaceae) is distinctive, the genus has few distinguishing characters among the 70 species included. This complicates taxonomy and Amaranthus has generally been considered among systematists as a "difficult" genus.

Amaranth (disambiguation)

Amaranth is a common name for the plants in the genus Amaranthus.

Amaranth may also refer to:

Plants

  • Amaranth grain, the edible grains of the amaranth genus
  • Gomphrena or globe amaranth, genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae
  • Peltogyne, a genus of tropical trees that produce lumber called "amaranth wood"
  • Colors

  • Amaranth (color), a bright reddish crimson rose color
  • Amaranth (dye), a dark red to purple dye once used for coloring food (FD&C Red No. 2) but now banned by the United States Food and Drug Administration
  • Places

  • Amaranth, Manitoba, a town in Canada
  • Amaranth, Ontario, a township in Ontario, Canada
  • Amaranth, Pennsylvania
  • . Amarante , a town in the North of Portugal.

    Organizations

  • Amaranth Advisors, a defunct American hedge fund firm
  • Order of the Amaranth, a Masonic-affiliated organization
  • Ships

  • Amaranth (barquentine), 4-masted ship in the China trade, built by Matthew Turner, Benicia, CA, in 1901
  • HMS Amaranthe (1804), 18-gun Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop
  • Amaranth (color)

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    Amaranth is a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower (the color normally considered amaranth), but there are other varieties of amaranth that have other colors of amaranth flowers; these colors are also shown below.

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    The color amaranth is displayed at right. This color is also called amaranth red to distinguish it from the varying colors of other varieties of the amaranth flower.

    The color amaranth is similar to printer's magenta (pigment magenta) (but redder). It is the color of the flower of those amaranth plants that have amaranth red colored flowers.

    The first recorded use of amaranth as a color name in English was in 1690.

    Etymology

    The name amaranth comes from the Greek a (not) + marainean (to waste away), i.e., a flower believed to grow on Mount Olympus which never died.

    Variations of amaranth

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    The color amaranth pink is displayed at right. This color is a representation of the color of pink amaranth flowers.

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