The rare find is pollen grain of buckwheat (
Fagopyrum esculentum).
INCI: Water/butylene glycol/ polygonum
fagopyrum (buckwheat) stem extract
ORIGINATING in northeast Asia, southern Siberia, and northern China, common buckwheat (Polygonaceae family) is one of 18 recognized natural species of
Fagopyrum and is the most important from economical, agricultural, and nutritional points of view.
Though prepared like a grain, this little brown triangular kernel is actually the fruit of a broadleaved plant,
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench, and a relative of rhubarb.
BUCKWHEAT (
Fagopyrum esculentum), a weed-smothering broad-leaved annual, reaches heights of two to four feet.
Inbreeding depression and concealed deleterious mutations in buckwheat populations,
Fagopyrum esculentum.
Genotypic differences in Al resistance and the role of cell-wall pectin in Al exclusion from the root apex in
Fagopyrum tataricum.
Buckwheat,
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench (Polygonaceae), a common cover crop, has been reported as an excellent source of nectar and habitat for natural enemies, with the added benefit of a short sowing-to-flower time (Bowie et al.
Common Buckwheat
Fagopyrum esculentum (Moench) is broad-leafed herbaceous annual herb belongs to family Polygonaceae (Campbell, 1997).
The study was conducted in a screened greenhouse of the Department of Soils and Rural Engineering (DSRE) of the Center of Agricultural Sciences (CCA) of the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB), in Areia-PB, Brazil, using plants of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), castor bean (Ricinus communis L.), common buckwheat (
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) and vetiver [Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty] cultivated in nutrient solution containing increasing doses of Pb.
Briggs, "Rutin and flavonoid contents in three buckwheat species
Fagopyrum esculentum, F tataricum, and F homotropicum and their protective effects against lipid peroxidation," Food Research International, vol.
Flavonoids are widely distributed in the plant kingdom and a search for their anti-parasitic activity have yielded compounds like Luteolin isolated from Vitex negundo and Quercetin derived from
Fagopyrum esculentum (Mittra et al.