Detroit Crimson Beet
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The beet stretches its colorful roots far back into human history, to a wild leafy plant growing in the coastal regions of Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor. This ancestor of the plant we grow in our gardens today was a slender-rooted perennial -- Beta maritima, or sea-beet. During the course of the beet's domestication, the plant was given its formal name for some imagined resemblance of the swollen root to the Greek letter B (beta). Other sources point to the Celtic "bett", meaning red, as the origin of the name.

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Translations: Detroit Crimson Biešu, Detroit Crimson Runkelių, Detroit Crimson sfeclă, Detroit Bebek repe, Detroit Crimson củ cải đường, Detroit Crimson buraka, डेट्रोइट क्रिमसन चुक़ंदर, Detroit beterraba Crimson, Детройт Кримсон свеклы, Ντιτρόιτ Crimson τεύτλων, ديترويت البيت قرمزي, 디트로이트 크림슨 사탕 무우, Detroit Crimson řepy, Detroit Crimson Bit, Detroit Crimson aselga, 底特律甜菜深红, Detroit Carmesí de remolatxa, Detroit Crimson repy, Detroit Beet Crimson, דטרויט ארגמן סלק, Детроит Цримсон репе, デトロイトクリムゾンビート, Détroit de betterave Crimson, Detroit Crimson beet, Detroit Crimson bete, Detroit Carmesí de remolacha, Детройт Крімсон буряків, Detroit Crimson Juurikas, Детройт Crimson цвекло