Reseda odorata

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Reseda odorata in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Reseda odorata, Linn. Common Mignonette. Fig. 3363; also 2372, p. 2049. Branching annual herb, at first upright but becoming wide-spreading and more or less decumbent: lvs. spatulate or oblanceolate, mostly obtuse, usually entire but sometimes notched: fls. yellowish white, in spicate racemes that become loose and open with age, very fragrant. N. Afr. B.M. 29. Gn. 55, p. 409.—Much grown for its strong and agreeable fragrance. It has been greatly modified under domestication. The following garden names seem to belong to this species: arborea, ameliorata, compacta, eximia, gigantea, grandiflora, pyramidalis, multiflora, pumila; they represent stature-forms and habi-forms of the horticulturists. Var. suffruticosa, Edw., is woody at the base. B.R. 227. Many named varieties of R. odorata are in the trade. See Mignonette. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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