SC - chard

[Decker, Terry D.]

> 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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