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  • COMMON NAME: pink mustard
  • ARABIC: خزام، السمان، السمانا
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Erucaria hispanica (L.) Druce
  • SYNONYMS: Sinapis hispanica L. ,Erucaria lineariloba
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:283447-1/images 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. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Honey nectar plants.
Annual, glabrous herb up to 50 cm high. Stems erect, of spreading branches from the base. Leaves petiolate, fleshy, alternate, narrowly segmented or bipinnatisect with linear to oblong lobes. Inflorescences racemes and flowers in terminal groups. Petals about 14 mm long, pink to lilac. Style filiform. Siliqua more or less straight and usually erect 11-17 mm long, beaked, 2-jointed parts; upper part 1-3 seeded, torulose. Flowering from February-March.
Dry stony hillsides and sandy gravelly soil.
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