30 Graines Moricandie des champs, Moricandia arvensis

Moricandie des fields, Moricandia Arvensis |

MORICANDIA ARVENSIS, which has a common name Moricandie des Champs, Moricandie or Chou des Champs1, is a European species and African de Plant of Family of Brassicaceae and Genre MORICANDIA.

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Chamaephyte very branched from the base, it amounts to 65 CM. The stems are erected, branched and woody at the base. The glaucous, basilar leaves do not form a clear rosette, they are obovals, at the top of the obtuse, at the base more or less cordiform ; Caulinary leaves range from large, wide, with an acute obtus summit2. The plant flowers from March to July. The flowers are grouped in a cluster of 10 to 20 flowers, with the non -flexue axis. The chalice has four average, linear, oblong and obtuse sepales. The side sepales are oblong-lanceolate, gibbous at the base. The corolla has 4 petals from 21 to 29 MM, lilac color, more rarely white.The silica is linear, from 30 to 60 MM of length and a width of 2 to 3 MM, right, erect, side tablet, remaining more or less perpendicular at the stem. The seeds measure almost 1.2 × 0.8 MM, are kissed, ellipsoidales, flattened, apteries and brown. It is a bioinder of poor, dry and nitrified soils. It is also a honey plant. It is rarely consumed by man in salad3, the herds feed on it4. Moricandia attracts a large number of aphids throughout the year without harming the plant too much.

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