Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Brassica cretica - L.
Family Brassicaceae
Common Name Phool Gobhi, Cauliflower
Habit Herb
Synonym Brassica cauliflora Garsault
Habitat Cultivated
Color Of Flower Yellow
Key Characters Leaves thick, glaucous blue; flowers yellow
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Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
Class :
Polypetalae
Series :
Thalamiflorae
Order :
Parietales
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Plant Description
Annual herb; stem moderately tall; branches more or less hispid; leaves shallowly lobed, upper leaves enclosing inflorescence, rachis of inflorescence and pedicels thickened; flowers in long racemes, flower buds fleshy, white or yellow in long racemes; sepals erect, usually saccate at the base; stamens usually 6, tetradynamous, ovary 1-celled, many ovuled, parietal placenta, style beaked, stigma truncate or 2-lobed; fruit siliqua, more or less appressed to rachis, 1-seeded; seeds many, globose, uniseriate, reticulately veined. |
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