The invention relates to spinach plants comprising a multileaf trait. The invention provides methods and compositions for generating such spinach plants with multileaf trait. The invention also provides seed and plants of spinach with multileaf trait. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach with multileaf trait, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.