SC - Silver beet mystery / skirrets

[Christina Nevin]

I've been in the UK for over 2 years now and still haven't yet seen any
silverbeet, or rather the vegetable known as silverbeet in New Zealand -
dark green, spinach/chard like shape and texture, average fullgrown leaf
about 12", white stalk, heavily iron taste in all but the young baby leaves
(NOT one of my favorite childhood foods!). 
What they call chard and kale here is nothing that I'd ever seen in NZ,
although it is obviously a relation. 
Possibly what we know as 'silverbeet' is the 'New Zealand Spinach' from the
http://www.nfarley.dircon.co.uk/thomas-etty/vegtables/greens.html website?
Does anyone Down Under have a seed packet with the Latin name available?

Also, I notice they advertise skirret seeds for sale - wasn't someone out
there looking for skirrets?

Al Vostro e al Servizio del Sogno
Lucretzia

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Lady Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia   |  mka Tina Nevin
Thamesreach Shire, The Isles, Drachenwald | London, UK
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"There is no doubt that great leaders prefer hard drinkers to good
versifiers" - Aretino, 1536 
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