Crambe

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Read about Crambe in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Crambe (old Greek substantive). Cruciferae. Herbs or sub-shrubs, one grown in the vegetable-garden, and one or two in the hardy herbary. Annuals, biennials or perennials, with thickened sts., and more or less fleshy lvs., glaucous: lvs. mostly large, more or less cut, lyrate or pinnatifid : fls. small, white, fragrant, in panicled racemes: fr. 2-jointed, indehiscent, the lower joint st.-like and seedless, the upper one globular and 1-seeded. — About 20 species in Eu., Asia, and 1 in Patagonia. Of easy cult. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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C. juncea, Bieb. Biennial: small species with white fls. in an attractively slender-branched panicle. Iberia.^CH
C. Katschyana, Boiss. Perennial: lvs. somewhat hairy, the radical ones cordatc- ovatewith rounded dentate lobes, the st.-lvs. few, ovate-oblong, lobecl. W. Asia. ^CH
C. tatarica, Jacq. Perennial, said to be grown in Hungary as "Tartarian bread." Glaucous, more or less rough-hairy: radical lvs. decompound, with linear segms. Hungary, E.^CH

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