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3 unusual facts about buckwheat


Mash ingredients

Buckwheat and quinoa, while not grains, both contain high levels of available starch and protein, while containing no gluten.

Photosensitivity in animals

Examples of plants producing Type I Photosensitivity include Buckwheat and St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum).

Tilden, Wisconsin


     John Myers has a farm on the N.E. quarter of Section 22 containing about 7.00(?) Acres(?) and has rais a good crop of Oats Wheat Barley Potatoes and Buckwheat this Season.


Alpaca

In common with similar livestock, others include: acorns, African rue, agave, amaryllis, autumn crocus, bear grass, broom snakeweed, buckwheat, ragweed, buttercups, calla lily, orange tree foliage, carnations, castor beans, and many others.

B. W. Stevenson

"B.W." stood for "Buckwheat." Stevenson was born in Dallas, Texas, and attended W. H. Adamson High School with such other future noted musicians as Michael Martin Murphey, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Larry Groce.

Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde

The album was produced by former group member J-Swift, and features only one guest appearance, provided by little known Los Angeles rapper Bucwheed (known then as "Buckwheat" from The Wascals).

Bob Hagan

On January 20, 2011 it was reported that Hagan had referred to someone during an online debate on Facebook as a "buckwheat", a word that some consider to have racist connotations.

Buckwheat Boyz

The Buckwheat Boyz was a musical group founded by Marcus Bowens and Jermain Fuller, later adding keyboardist J.J. O'Neal and drummer Dougy Williams and finally adding Randall Frye to the group.

E. flavum

Eriogonum flavum, the alpine golden buckwheat, a plant species native to northwestern North America

E. giganteum

Eriogonum giganteum, the St. Catherine's lace, a wild buckwheat shrub species

Eriogonum giganteum

compactum or the Santa Barbara Island buckwheat, is endemic to and particularly rare on Santa Barbara Island.

compactum — Santa Barbara Island buckwheat, endemic to/rare on Santa Barbara Island.

Eriogonum truncatum

The first recorded sighting of Mt. Diablo buckwheat was by William H. Brewer, the first Chair of Agriculture at the Yale University Sheffield Scientific School.

Eriogonum umbellatum

torreyanum - (Donner Pass buckwheat) - known from fewer than 10 occurrences near the Donner Pass

Euphilotes

Euphilotes battoides (Behr, 1867) – Square-spotted Blue or Buckwheat Blue

Euphilotes rita (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Rita Blue or Desert Buckwheat Blue

Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga

Warmer, south-facing valley slopes are home to rare plants that have survived in this harsh climate including Shacklett's Cryptantha (Cryptantha shacklettiana), Erysimum asperum and alpine golden buckwheat (Eriogonum flavum).

Pickaninny

In the 1936 Hal Roach feature General Spanky starring the Our Gang children, Buckwheat gets his foot tangled in the cord that blows the whistle on the river boat.

Ploye

A ploye is a pancake type mix of buckwheat flour, wheat flour, baking powder and water which is extremely popular in the Madawaska region (New Brunswick), Canada and northern Maine, United States.

Reunion in Rhythm

A running gag has Buckwheat attempting to recite "Little Jack Horner" (unannounced), as Spanky tries to keep him offstage.

Senecio ertterae

Other plants in the sparsely vegetated habitat include Pseudoroegneria spicata (bluebunch wheatgrass), Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass), Mimulus cusickii (Cusick's monkeyflower), Eriogonum vimineum (broom buckwheat), and Phacelia hastata (silverleaf phacelia).


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