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Bayer Code : dipmu

Scientific name: Diplotaxis muralis (L.) A. P. de Candolle


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Diplotaxis scaposa DC.

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: annual wall-rocket

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Mauer-Doppelsame ; ES : jaramago blanco ; FR : roquette des murailles ; IT : ruchetta dei muri ; PT : ; EN : annual wall-rocket ;

Biological type: Annual, Biennial


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened spoon-like.

- Leaves entire, ovate or deltoid, irregularly toothed.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-50cm.

- Stem ascending, downy in the upper part almost leafless.

- Leaves: lower in rosette ; green-yellowish, oblong, narrowed into a stalk at the base, deeply sinuate -toothed or pinnatifid with 2 lateral lobes sinuate-dentate and the terminal longest.

- Flowers bright-yellow, scenting, becoming later tawny- brown or somewhat reddish, rounded and obovate petals.

- Fruits : linear siliquae (30-40 x 2 mm).

- Plant with unpleasant scent.

- Biological type: Annual or biennial

Mistake with: Diplotaxis catholica


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

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