Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : borof

Scientific name: Borago officinalis L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Boraginaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: borage

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gurkenkraut ; ES : borraga común ; FR : bourrache officinale ; IT : borragine comune ; PT : borragem ; EN : borage ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons elongate spoonlike.

- Leaves entire, elliptical to ovate, with entire margin.

Adult plant:

- Height: 30-70 cm.

- Stem round, thick, hollow, strongly branched.

- Leaves of the base, ovate-elliptical contracted in a long stalk. Upper leaves amplexicaul, contracted above the base. Rough and with spiny hairs.

- Flowers blue, corolla 5-lobed rotate. Inflorescence in forked cymes.

- Fruits : big 4 nutlets, 5 mm longer than the perianth, rugose and brown.

- Plant with diuretic, sudorific and counter-irritant flowers.

- Biological type: annual.

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