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  • COMMON NAME: Sonchus
  • ARABIC: عضيده
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sonchus oleraceus L.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Ajman , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Apiculture (A) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:250268-1/images V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Honey nectar plants. Leaves used as salad greens. Infusion of whole plant used as general tonic, diuretic and laxative.
Annual, erect herb, 30-90 cm high, glabrous, sometimes glandular-hairy above. Stems erect, sparingly branched, hollow. Radial leaves many, 10-20 cm long, petiolate, runcinate-pinnatilobed, lobes irregular in shape, dentate, acute, terminal lobe triangular or ovate; cauline leaves sessile, narrow, clasping the stem with pointed auricles. Heads in a cymose, subumbellate panicle, yellow. Involucral bracts oblong-lanceolate. Flowers all ligulate as long as corolla-tube. Achenes oblanceolate, rugose between the ribs, weakly compressed. Pappus white, fine hairs, more or less persistent. Flowering from January- Jun.
Gardens and cultivated fields.
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