- Scientific name
- Amaranthus cruentus
- Common name
- African-spinach
- Kingdom / family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Amaranthus
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Edible
- yes
- Temperature
- 22 to 28 °C
- pH
- 5.5 to 7
- Precipitation
- 2000 to 2400 mm
- Light
- 3/10
- Native regions
- ["El Salvador","Guatemala","Honduras","Mexico Central","Mexico Gulf"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Afghanistan","Alabama","Albania","Algeria","Altay","Amur","Argentina Northeast","Argentina Northwest","Arizona","Assam","Baleares","Baltic States","Bangladesh","Belgium","Benin","Bolivia","Borneo","Botswana","Brazil Northeast","Brazil Southeast","Brazil South","Brazil West-Central","Bulgaria","Burundi","California","Cambodia","Cameroon","Canary Is.","Cape Provinces","Cape Verde","Central European Russia","Chile Central","China North-Central","China South-Central","China Southeast","Chita","Christmas I.","Colombia","Connecticut","Corse","Cuba","Cyprus","Czechia-Slovakia","DR Congo","Dominican Republic","East Aegean Is.","East European Russia","Ecuador","Egypt","Ethiopia","Fiji","France","Free State","Germany","Ghana","Great Britain","Guinea-Bissau","Guinea","Gulf of Guinea Is.","Haiti","Hawaii","Hungary","Illinois","Indiana","India","Inner Mongolia","Iran","Iraq","Irkutsk","Italy","Ivory Coast","Japan","Jawa","Kazakhstan","Kentucky","Kenya","Kirgizstan","Korea","Kriti","Krym","KwaZulu-Natal","Laccadive Is.","Leeward Is.","Lesser Sunda Is.","Libya","Maine","Malawi","Mali","Manchuria","Maryland","Massachusetts"]