Amaranthus \u2013<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are about 60 species of erect spreading or prostrate annuals or short-lived perennials, used as houseplants, in this genus. \u00a0Grown as ornamentals, leaf vegetables, and grain crops but some are regarded as a weed. \u00a0Found in wastelands and in temperature and tropical regions worldwide. \u00a0They have alternate often-colorful leaves. \u00a0They bear large upright or pendent catkin, drooping tassel like cymes of numerous densely packed small red or green flowers from early summer to early autumn followed by colored seed heads.<\/p>\n

Indoors grow in soil based potting mix in full light, water freely throughout summer and provide high humidity. \u00a0\u00a0Where able to grow outside, grow in a sunny dry position and protect from strong winds, in fertile well drained, manure or humus rich site. \u00a0Prune when young to thicken growth.<\/p>\n

Prone to snails, caterpillars, aphids <\/i><\/em>as well as white rust, brown rust, Cercospora leaf spot<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and phyllasticta leaf spot, root rot, aster yellow<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and virus disease.<\/p>\n

Amaranthus hypochondriacus <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Green Thumb\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 This erect bushy annual grows 24″ inches tall and 12-18\u201d wide. \u00a0It bears 6\u201d long, oblong-lance dark purple-green leaves. \u00a0In summer to early autumn it bears tiny brilliant yellow-green flowers in erect plume-like sometimes flattened terminal cymes to 6\u201d or more.<\/p>\n

Hardiness 12-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amaranthus \u2013 There are about 60 species of erect spreading or prostrate annuals or short-lived perennials, used as houseplants, in this genus. \u00a0Grown as ornamentals, leaf vegetables, and grain crops but some are regarded as a weed. \u00a0Found in wastelands and in temperature and tropical regions worldwide. \u00a0They have alternate often-colorful leaves. \u00a0They bear large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,36,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254972"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}