Cakile edentulais asucculentplant that provides potassium , calcium , and a range of B vitamins , genus Beta - carotene , and vulcanized fiber . The leaves and young theme are eatable , but it is preferred to cook them before consumption and not eat up them in large quantity . The roots are dry out and ground into a pulverisation , then mixed with food grain flour to make wampum .
Cakile edentula(Bigelow ) Hook .
American Searocket , Sea Kale , Sea Rocket
In habitat, Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec, Canada. Derivative of a photo byJacques Ranger. Licensed underCC BY-NC 4.0.
Bunias edentula , Cakile edentulasubsp.edentula , Cakile edentulavar.typica , Cakile lanceolatasubsp.edentula , Cakile lanceolatavar.edentula
Family : BrassicaceaeTribe : BrassiceaeGenus : Cakile
The specific name " edentula(e - DEN - tuh - luh ) " means " without teeth , toothless . "
In habitat, Farewell Spit, New Zealand. Derivative of a photo byChris Ecroyd. Licensed underCC BY-NC 4.0.
Cakile edentulais native toNorth America . It grow on the dunes of coastal beaches and shorelines of freshwater lakes from North Carolina to Labrador along the Atlantic coast . This mintage has also been naturalized in a like latitudinal compass on the Pacific slide and in Australia .
Cakile edentulais anannualsucculent with fleshy unripe leaves that rise alternately on much - prongy stem and have various teeth andlobepatterns . It can originate up to 32 in ( 80 cm ) tall and sometimes grows as aperennial , in which slip it is usually compact in anatomy and rarely sprawl . The stems are tumid or rarelyprostrate . The leaves are spoon - form with alternate rounded notches and lobes . They may have lobes arranged in apinnatemanner or be subentire .
From summer to fall , Cakile edentulaproduces many - floweredracemesof flower with white to pale lavenderpetalsand shorter greensepals . The flowers can reach up to 0.4 inches ( 1 atomic number 96 ) in length . The fruit are green and do not split open when advanced . The lower joint of the fruits can be cylindric or more or less tapering , measure up to ( 0.5 inches ) 1.2 curium long , while the upper joint is 4 - slant or obscurely 8 - weight , unremarkably mandril - shape , and always notably larger than the lower , measuring up to 0.6 inch ( 1.5 cm ) long .
In habitat, Saint-Fabien, Quebec, Canada. Derivative of a photo byJanie Collin. Licensed underCC BY-NC 4.0.
Cakile edentulagrows in flaxen grease closer to the ocean than beach grass . As a succulent , it holds pee , puddle it well-fixed to maturate .
When mature this plant , do not include it in a veggie garden . Companions for its cultivation must be of the same family of plants . IfCakile edentuladetects source of other plants tight to it , an " allelopathic " action occurs . It releases a substance into the root geographical zone that stunts or otherwise deter plants of other character .
genus Cakile edentulaputs a farsighted taproot into the soil and does not like to be moved . Start it from the dual - jointed ejaculate seedcase when they appear on the plant and ripe , following the minuscule purple blooms .
In habitat, Wells Reserve, Maine, United States. Derivative of a photo byMatthew Salkiewicz. Licensed underCC BY-NC 4.0.
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