SC - chard
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Tue Oct 19 06:53:17 PDT 1999
> It's called silverbeet here - I had one of those end-of-the-working-day
> mental blanks and couldn't remember whether I knew the name as chard from
> here or from when I lived in England. Resorted to the Oxford Concise
> Australian Dictionary, which says it is called silverbeet, but also known
> as
> seakale beet, which I've never heard of. Hope that helps.
>
> Kylie
>
I'll have to file that one away. I've never come across either of these
names for chard.
As a guess, the name, seakale beet, comes from the fact that the leaves
resemble sea kale, a wild leafy cabbage, which some botanists believe is the
wild ancestor of our cultivated cabbages.
Bear
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