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Bayer Code : cnhor

Scientific name: Conringia orientalis (L.) Dumortier


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Brassica orientalis L., Erysimum perfoliatum Crantz Erysimum orientale R. Brown

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: hare's-ear mustard

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Weißer Ackerkohl ; ES : berza oriental ; FR : roquette d' orient ; IT : conringia orientale ; PT : ; EN : hare's-ear mustard ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshotSeed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elongate, spoonlike.

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, margin entire.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-60cm. Plant glabrous and glaucous.

- Stem erect, simple, cylindrical. Extensive principal root.

- Leaves : basal leaves short-stalked, long, obovate, with an entire margin. Leaves elliptic, oblong, cordate. Cauline leaves sessile, clasping the stem by 2 broad and truncate pricks.

- Flowers yellowish or white-greenish (1-1.5 cm) in few-flowered racemes, on erect and straight pedicels. Calyx erect.

- Fruits : siliques tetrangular, erect, very long (5-14 cm). Seeds ovate, glabrous, 2-2.5 mm long, brown.

- Plant bolting with cereals and fitting its life-cycle with that of cereals. Rare in crops.

- Biological type: annual.


Ecological profile (click on flags): Germany   Rare     Spain  Rare     France  Rare     Italy  Present    

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