Bring a purple touch to your garden with this Wild cabbage! Widely used in gardening for borders and rockeries, in addition to being perfect for growing in a pot.
Annual perennial up to 80cm. Glaucous leaves that grow somewhat fleshy and lanceolate on the stem; the lower ones sometimes have a purple underside. Strinking purple flowers with 4 petals that grow in clusters. The fruit is a very long and narrow silicon with a row of seeds.
Direct sowing.
It is distinguished from Moricandia arvensis in the arrangement of seeds, which are in a single row, and M.arvensis has them in a pair of rows.
I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | XII | |
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Flowering |
Average germination (%) | 50 |
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Climate Zone | Mediterranean |
Flower colour | Purple |
Foliage | Evergreen |
Foliage color | Green |
Fruit color | Brown |
Hardiness | Hardy |
Life cycle | Annual |
Plant use | Baskets & Containers, Edges, Gardening, Rock garden |
Seeds per gram | 2000 |
Soil - Moisture | Fresh to moist |
Soil - Ph | Alkaline |
Soil - Type | Chalk, Clay, Sand, Stony |
Sunlight - Exposure | Sun |