Suaeda

Suaeda
Suaeda maritima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Subfamily:	Suaedoideae
Genus:	Suaeda Forssk. ex J.F. Gmel.
Species
About 110

Greens labeled as romeritos and identified as a species of Suaeda were purchased from Berkeley Bowl. They were tasted raw, and also simmered in a mole sauce. The taste was similar to other salt-tolerant Amaranthaceae such as Chenopodium or Blitum bonus-henricus.

The Spanish name "romeritos" means "little rosemaries" (from the visual resemblance), and the dish is apparently associated with Christmas time.

Selected species

• Suaeda aegyptiaca
• Suaeda aralocaspica - formerly known as Borszczowia aralocaspica, a central Asian halophyte
• Suaeda asphaltica - Asphaltic seablite
• Suaeda australis - Austral seablite
• Suaeda calceoliformis - Pursh seepweed, broom seepweed, horned seablite
• Suaeda californica - California seablite
• Suaeda conferta - beach seepweed
• Suaeda corniculata - jiao guo jian peng
• Suaeda esteroa - estuary seablite
• Suaeda glauca - jian peng
• Suaeda japonica
• Suaeda linearis - annual seepweed, narrow-leaf seablite
• Suaeda maritima - herbaceous seepweed
• Suaeda mexicana - Mexican seepweed
• Suaeda moquinii - Mojave seablite
• Suaeda nigra - bush seepweed, romerillo
• Suaeda occidentalis - western seepweed
• Suaeda palaestina
• Suaeda pulvinata
• Suaeda rolandii - Roland's seablite
• Suaeda salina
• Suaeda suffrutescens - desert seepweed
• Suaeda tampicensis - coastal seepweed
• Suaeda taxifolia - woolly seablite
• Suaeda torreyana - iodine weed
• Suaeda vera - alkali seepweed
• Suaeda vermiculata

Acknowledgements

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