Wild Radish |
Raphanus raphanistrum |
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Carl Farmer |
Occasional on waste or cultivated ground Flower diameter c 25-30 mm ID: Looks like a garden vegetable gone to seed. Flowers can be yellow, white or mauve, noticeably veined. Pods are beaded and break between the single-seeded beads, unlike most crucifer pods which divide down their length. The fruit is 2.5-5.5 mm wide, compared to 4.5-10 mm wide in Sea Radish, which is a coastal plant. Other features: Leaves lobed or the uppermost merely toothed. all bristly, even the uppermost having spine-like hairs on its undersurface. |
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