The 'spinach' plant was appointed in 1753 by the essential Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné. For botanists, spinach is Spinacia Oleracea who has long been part of the Chenopodiaceae family, but that the phylogenetic classification is now in the cosmopolitan family of Amaranthaceae. The culture of spinach started in the Middle East, probably from the 4th century. The Arabs introduced the spinach to Seville in Andalusia around the year a thousand, but it only reached France at the very beginning of the 13th century, undoubtedly because of the crusaders.
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