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  • COMMON NAME: Cakile
  • ARABIC: زملق، صالح
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cakile arabica Velen.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
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. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:279784-1
Honey nectar plants.
Annual, stems branched, erect, up to 50 cm. Lower leaves divided deeply into almost linear lobes, 0.2-0.5*4-15 cm. Upper leaves often absent. Flowers purple, 4-petalled, c. 0.5-1 cm across. Fruit spreading laterally, 0.2*0.3 * 1-2cm, longitudinally ridged, spindle-shaped, with broad flat tips, on stalks up to 0.4 cm long. Flowering from February-March, December-March.
Recorded from Ru'us al-jibal (Mountains).
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