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

Bayer Code : buner

Scientific name: Bunias erucago L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: southernwarty-cabbage

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Morgenländisches Zackenschötchen ; ES : mostacilla ; FR : bunias fausse roquette ; IT : cascellore ; PT : maça-de-bedel ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate, with rounded tip, more or less petiolate, entire lanceolate leaves, more or less dentate.

Adult plant:

- Height: 30-60 cm. Glandulous hairy.

- Stem erect, branched with several glandulous hairs.

- Lower leaves runcinate, pinnatifid. Upper leaves sessile, oblong, entire or dentate.

- Yellow flowers with erect sepals and heart shaped petals.

- Fruits : quadrangular bulbous silicules with 4 wings and dentate angles (10 to 12 mm). Elongated fructiferous raceme. Triangular flattened brown seeds (2 to 3 mm).

- Plant which fruits are used against dropsy. Sap of the plant is depurative.

- Biological type: annual.

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