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  • COMMON NAME: London rocket
  • ARABIC: خردله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sisymbrium irio L.
  • SYNONYMS: Arabis charbonnelii, Descurainia irio, Erysimum irio, Norta irio, Sisymbrium irioides, Sisymbrium maximum, Sisymbrium multisiliquosum, Sisymbrium pinnatifidum
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: 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://www.floraofqatar.com/sisymbrium_irio.htm https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:237940-2/general-information#uses V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. 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. The seeds used as an expectorant. seeds boiled in water and solution taken as drink to treat fevers and cough.
Annual herb, 30-50 cm high. Stems erect, branched, pubescent or glabrescent, lower leaves variable in size, petiolate, pinnately divided with hastate terminal lobe; cauline leaves subsessile, pinnate or lyrate. Flowers about 3 mm across. Petals yellow with short clawed, 2.5-4 mm long. Fruiting pedicels, erect-spreading, 5-12 mm long, thinner than siliques. Fruit 30-45 mm long, 1 mm broad, nearly curved; valves 3-nerved. Seeds 20-40 in each locule, small, yellowish-brown, about 1.5 mm long. Flowering from January-March.
Gardens, farms, and roadsides.
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