Brassica tournefortii, Tournefort's Mustard,
Hebrew: כרוב החוף, Arabic: خردل بري - قراص, Egypt: شلطام "Shiltam"

Scientific name:  Brassica tournefortii Gouan
Common name  Tournefort's Mustard, Asian mustard
Hebrew name:  כרוב החוף
Arabic name:  خردل بري - قراص
Egypt:   شلطام "Shiltam"
Family:  Cruciferae (Brassicaceae), מצליבים

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Location: Sharon Beach National Park

Life form:  Annual
Stems:  70 cm; hairs on lower stem ± dense, stiff, white
Leaves:  Alternate, rosette arrangement, dissected, dentate or serrate leaves
Flowers:  Sepals suberect; pale yellow petals 5-7x1.5mm, small and narrow
Fruits / pods:  Siliqua; dark reddish brown; reticulations prominent silvery lines; interspaces small
Flowering Period:  January, February, March, April, December
Habitat:  Sand
Distribution:   The Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts
Chorotype:  Mediterranean - Saharo-Arabian
Summer shedding:  Ephemeral

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Derivation of the botanical name:
Brassica, the classical Latin name for cabbage.
tournefortii, named for Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656—1708), French botanist who was professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
The Hebrew name: כרוב החוף, cruv hahof, cruv, cabbage; hahof, coast.
  • The standard author abbreviation Gouan is used to indicate Antoine Gouan (1733 – 1821), a French naturalist and a pioneer of Linnaean taxonomy in France.

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