The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

BUCKWHEAT

Buckwheat or Brank (Fagopyrum esculentum or Polygonum Fagopyrum) is a plant of the family Polygonacea, with a branched herbaceous stem, somewhat arrow-shaped leaves, and purplish-white flowers, growing to a height of about one meter, and bearing a small triangular grain resembling a beech-nut - whence the name whichis a corruption of beechwheat- of a brownish-black hue. It is cultivated in the far-east as a bread-corn and in Europe as a feed for farm animals.
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