Ambrose
Chenopodium botrys 'Green Magic'
Amaranthaceae
Other names
Ambrosia
Growth habit
Herbaceous
Perennation
Annual
Biocultural value
Flowering stems add a heavy sweet-spicy scent to herbal wreathes and dried arrangments.
Location
Source of plant
Richters
Description
Differs from C. ambrosioides in its more erect habit, leafless panicles of flowers, and its smaller (1-5cm) pinnatifid to deeply lobed leaves. Erect annual herb to 80cm, much branched, covered with sticky hairs, aromatic. Flowers many, yellow-green, in slender panicles in upper leaf axils. Fruit dry; seed shiny. Grown for its nutty flavor.
USDA Hardiness Zone
7
Special characteristics
fragrance