1. Beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
   "The Swiss perpetual spinach's rainbow-coloured stems brightened up the vegetable bed";
   - chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla
    
2. Long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
   "She added Swiss perpetual spinach to the vegetable soup";
   - chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet

Type of: beet, Beta vulgaris, common beet, green, greens, leafy vegetable