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Rhubarb
Rhubarb
Rheum rhabarbarum
Plantae
UNCOMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Medium
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
Asia
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Uncommon

About

Rhubarb is a hardy garden perennial prized for its vivid crimson-green stalks, which are cooked as a sweet-tart ingredient in pies and jams — yet its broad crinkled leaves contain toxic levels of oxalic acid and are never eaten.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Polygonaceae
Genus
Rheum
Species
Rheum rhabarbarum