• Amaranthus caudatus • {krak-mauk-pan:ping}
• Amaranthus peniculatus • {hing:nu.nèý}
• Amaranthus spinosus • {hing:nu.nèý hsu:pauk}
• Amaranthus spp.
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Family: Amaranthaceae 3
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• Amaranthus caudatus
• {krak-mauk-pan:ping}
• Amaranthus peniculatus
• {hing:nu.nèý}
• Amaranthus spinosus
• {hing:nu.nèý hsu:pauk}
• Amaranthus spp.
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Entered as: {krak-mauk-pan:ping}
Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
• Agri.Dept.2000 08-0202: 
{krak-mauk}
• Chklist: Kyet-mauk
• LSR : NL
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN : NL
• Nagathein : NL
• UHM : NL
Myanmar-Script Spelling
•
{krak-mauk} - n.
-- MMDict 032 gives 2 definitions:
1.
2.
-
UKT: MMDict 032
def.1 is for a plant bearing a tasty fruit with rind covered with hairs.
def. 2 is for a plant bearing a flower
resembling a coxcomb.
•
{krak-mauk}
/|kje' mau'|/ - n. -- MEDict 042
1. cock's comb
2. coxcomb, love-lies-bleeding. Amaranthus caudatus
3. rambutan. N. lappaceum
UKT: To differentiate N. lappaceum and A. caudatus, from one another, MMPDB has to adopt the names:
• {krak-mauk-pan: ping}
• {krak-mauk-thi: ping}for N. lappaceum
Data above updated (070309) in Akshara index r1c1kaM.htm
Chklist data: 060716
• Amaranthus caudatus L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated.
Common Names: Kyet-mauk, Love lies bleeding
Hindi :
Sanskrit :
English common name used in Myanmar :
• Agri.Dept.2000 08-0202: love-lies-bleeding
• LSR : NL
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN : NL
• Nagathein : NL
• UHM : NL
Picture :
• Leader:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/annuals/loveliesbleeding.html
• Photo left: Leaves and inflorescence --
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/7583/
• Photo right: Leaves and inflorescence --
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=dl&enlarge=0000+0000+0105+1373
Plant identification characters :
Distribution in Myanmar :
Part used and uses :
• Weed and cultivated ornamental. Formally grown as grain crop by the Incas but displaced by Colonists' cereals. Leaves used like spinach. -- http://www.fao.org/ag/AGA/AGAP/frg/afris/Data/572.HTM
• For many centuries, the leaves and seeds of Amaranthus species
have been sources of food for native people from North and South America to
Asia, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean region, and Eurasia.
Amaranth was the principal grain crop of the Aztecs and known as the
“golden grain of the gods” until all the fields and seeds were destroyed by
the Spanish Conquistadors. The following are the words of more knowledgeable
specialists than I—and better writers—from Lost Crops of the Incas:
Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation,
produced by an Ad Hoc Panel of the National Research Council led by Noel
Vietmeyer and published in 1989 by the National Academy Press in Washington,
D.C. (available for reading online at
http://books.nap.edu/books/030904264X/html/R1.html#pagetop):
“A staple grain of the Incas, Aztecs, and other pre-Columbian
peoples, amaranth was once almost as widely dispersed throughout the Americas as
corn. The most important Andean species is Amaranthus caudatus. In
Quechua, the ancient Inca language that is still spoken in the Andes, it is
called “kiwicha” (pronounced kee-wee-cha).
Kiwicha is one of the prettiest crops on earth; the beautiful
colors of its broad leaves, stems, and flowers—purple, red, gold—create fiery
fields that blaze across the mountainsides. The plant grows vigorously,
tolerates drought, heat, and pests, and adapts readily to new environments,
including some that are inhospitable to conventional grain crops. Nonetheless,
it is little known outside the highland regions of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and
northwestern Argentina.
Kiwicha’s grains are scarcely bigger than poppy seeds. However,
they occur in huge numbers—sometimes more than 100,000 to a plant. Like other
amaranth grains, they are flavorful and, when heated, they pop to produce a
crunchy white product that tastes like a nutty popcorn. Light and crisp, it is
delicious as a snack, as a cold cereal with milk and honey, as a “breading” on
chicken or fish, or in sweets with a whisper of honey. The grain is also ground
into flour, rolled into flakes, “puffed,” or boiled for porridge. Because of its
high nutritional value, it is considered especially good for children, invalids,
and the elderly.
These seeds are one of the most nutritious foods grown. Not only
are they richer in protein than the major cereals, but the amino acid balance of
their protein comes closer to nutritional perfection for the human diet than
that in normal cereal grains.”
So there you have it. An ornamental, not to my taste but perhaps to
yours, which turns out to be possibly invasive in that role and yet very useful
as a food source for the world’s future. A few thousand acres of amaranth are
grown today in the United States. Do a little digging about amaranth—here
and abroad—and you’ll uncover a fascinating tale of production techniques,
sustainability, biodiversity, food production, and agriculture markets. --
http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/homehort/plant/amaranthaceae.htm
Constituents :
• {hing:nu.nèý}
Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
• Agri.Dept.2000 62-1667:
{hing:nu.nèý}
• Chklist: Hin-nu-nwe
• LSR : NL
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN : NL
• Nagathein NL:
• UHM : NL
Myanmar-Script Spelling
•
{hing:nu.nèý}
-
--MMDict 344
•
{hing:nu.nèý}
/|hin: nu. ne|/ - n. species of amaranth used as a vegetable, Amaranthus bliturn,
A. peniculatus -- MEDict 531
Data above updated (070309) in Akshara index r4c2ha.htm
UKT: Formerly spelled as
{hing:nu.nwèý} -- see LSR 473 and Nagathein 4-407. {hing:nu.nwèý} is a favorite vegetable, especially for Myanmars exposed to Indian dishes, for stir-frying with curry powder. The species with the suffix
Chklist data: 060716
• Amaranthus paniculatus L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Reported
from Myanmar. Common Names: Hin-nu-nwe
Hindi :
Sanskrit :
English common name used in Myanmar :
• Agri.Dept.2000 62-1667: Amaranth
• LSR : NL
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN : NL
• Nagathein NL:
• UHM : NL
Picture :
• Leader: both photos from:
http://www.biopix.dk/PhotosSmall/Amaranthus%20paniculatus%20(Cultiv)%2000004.JPG
• Photo: Amaranthus paniculatus (Amaranthus sp. 'intense purple') --
http://tomclothier.hort.net/photoalb.html
Plant identification characters :
Distribution in Myanmar :
Part used and uses :
Constituents :
Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
• Agri.Dept.2000 62-1668:
{hing:nu.nèý hsu:pauk}
• Chklist: Hin-nu-nwe-subauk
• LSR 473:
{hing:nu.nèý hsu:pauk}
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN 037: Hin-nu-nwe-su-bauk
• Nagathein 4-407:
{hing:nu.nèý hsu:pauk}
• UHM : NL
Myanmar-Script Spelling
• NL in MMDict
•
{hing:nu.nèý hsu:pauk}
/|hin: nu. ne hsu: bau'|/ - n. prickly amaranth, Amaranthus spinosus --
MEDict531
Data above updated (070309) in Akshara index r4c2ha.htm
UKT: Formerly spelled as
Chklist data: 060716
• Amaranthus spinosus L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated.
Common Names: Hin-nu-nwe-subauk, Spiny amaranthus
Hindi
• {ba.hu.di~r-ya.} -- Nagathein
Sanskrit
English common name used in Myanmar :
• Agri.Dept.2000 -- Prickly amaranth
• LSR : Prickly amaranth
• FAO -- NL
• KS-TMN -- Prickly amaranth
• Nagathein -- Not given
• UHM -- NL
• Leader from: http://plants.usda.gov/gallery/standard/amsp_001_svd.jpg
• Photos: left -- habit with flowers and fruits, right -- wild growing plants
Plant identification characters
• An annual herb, erect; branches diffuse, stems hard, grooved, spines sharp, straight and divaricate in leaf axils. Leaves alternate, simple; exstipulate; petioles long, equalling the laminae or shorter; laminae ovate or lanceolate or oblong, the bases obtuse, the margins entire, the tips spinous -apiculate, the upper surfaces glabrous, the lower sometimes scurfy. Inflorescences axillary cymules, dense and clustered or terminal and axillary spikes, dense or interrupted; bracts scarious. Flowers small, bracteoles linear, bristle-pointed, sessile, unisexual, monoecious, actinomorphic, pentamerous, hypogynous. Staminate flower: perianth uniseriate, sepals 5, ovate, acuminate, bristle-pointed. Androceium polyandrous, stamens 5, opposite the sepals, the filaments filiform, the anthers dithecous, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistillate flower: perianth uniseriate, sepals 5, oblong, obtuse, apiculate. Pistil 1, ovary ovoid, compressed, 2- carpelled, syncarpous, 1- loculed, the ovule solitary, erect, the placentation basal, the styles 2, short, the stigmas 2. Fruit a capsule, ovoid, thickened at the top, dehiscence circumscissile about the middle, membranous, rugose; seeds globose, erect, compressed, testa crustaceous, endospermic, albumen floury. Flowering period: July-November. Fruiting period: August-December. -- KS-TMN
•
{hing:nu.nwèý-hsu:pauk} is a large species of {hing:nu.nwèý}. Since it is a
well-known plant, we need not elaborate. -- Nagathein, free translation by UKT.
Distribution in Myanmar
• A weed, common throughout Myanmar in waste land places -- KS-TMN
Part used and uses
• Roots, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds
-- Antidote for snake-bites. Root -- Antidote for scorpion-stings;
Muscle spasticity; Dermatitis. Root decoction -- Haematemesis;
Menorrhagia; Leucorrhoea; Heals boils and sores. Leaf
-- Dysuria; Gonorrhoea; Urolithiasis; Hepatitis; Haemorrhoids;
Stops epistaxis; Antidote for spider toxin. -- KS-TMN
Constituents
See also Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth 121231
Results of search for 'Amaranthus' in the Checklist of
Plants of Myanmar, U.S. National Herbarium, 16 Jul 2006.
• Amaranthus blitoides S. Wats. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Wide. Common
Names: Hinka-nwe, Hin-nu-nwe, Phat-khun-khaik
• Amaranthus caudatus L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated.
Common Names: Kyet-mauk, Love lies bleeding
• Amaranthus gangeticus L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated.
Common Names: Grain amaranth, Hin-nu-nwe
• Amaranthus mangostanus L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Wide. Common
Names: Hin-nu-nwe
• Amaranthus paniculatus L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Reported
from Myanmar. Common Names: Hin-nu-nwe
• Amaranthus spinosus L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated.
Common Names: Hin-nu-nwe-subauk, Spiny amaranthus
• Amaranthus tricolor L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated. Common
Names: Hin-nu-nwe-ywet-hla, Joseph's coat
• Amaranthus viridis L. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Yangon. Common
Names: Hin-nu-nwe
Entry format: Botanical name / Family / Ref. Burmese-Myanmar
transcripts • Agri.Dept.2000 :
• Chklist: • LSR : • FAO : • KS-TMN:
• Nagathein :
• UHM :/ Myanmar-Script Spelling (•
Official Myanmar Dictionaries : - TravPo-M-Dict - Myan-Engl-Dict - Myan-Ortho
/ Chklist data / Hindi /
Sanskrit / English common name used in Myanmar / Picture /
Plant identification characters / Distribution in Myanmar / Part
used and uses / Constituents /
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