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Crambe
Crambe is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to a variety of habitats in Europe, Turkey, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. They carry dense racemes of tiny white or yellow flowers on (mostly leafless) stems above the basal leaves. Crambe hispanica subsp. abyssinica, formerly known as Crambe abyssinica, is grown for the oil from the seeds that has characteristics similar to whale oil.
The word "crambe" derives, via the Latin crambe, from the Greek κράμβη, a kind of cabbage.
31 branches of this genus, most-observed first
sea kale
speciesCrambe maritima
Tartar breadplant
speciesCrambe tataria
Crambe strigosa
speciesCrambe strigosa
Abyssinian Kale
speciesCrambe hispanica
Oriental Sea-kale
speciesCrambe orientalis
Crambe aspera
speciesCrambe aspera
Greater Sea-kale
speciesCrambe cordifolia
Crambe koktebelica
speciesCrambe koktebelica
Crambe fruticosa
speciesCrambe fruticosa
Crambe filiformis
speciesCrambe filiformis
Crambe scaberrima
speciesCrambe scaberrima
Crambe pritzelii
speciesCrambe pritzelii
Crambe pinnatifida
speciesCrambe pinnatifida
Crambe santosii
speciesCrambe santosii
Crambe kralikii
speciesCrambe kralikii
Crambe edentula
speciesCrambe edentula
Crambe gomeraea
speciesCrambe gomeraea
Crambe arborea
speciesCrambe arborea
Crambe steveniana
speciesCrambe steveniana
Crambe laevigata
speciesCrambe laevigata
Crambe grandiflora
speciesCrambe grandiflora
Crambe sventenii
speciesCrambe sventenii
Crambe feuilleei
speciesCrambe feuilleei
Crambe tamadabensis
speciesCrambe tamadabensis
Crambe alutacea
speciesCrambe alutacea
Crambe juncea
speciesCrambe juncea
Crambe microcarpa
speciesCrambe microcarpa
Crambe scoparia
speciesCrambe scoparia
Crambe armena
speciesCrambe armena
Crambe wildpretii
speciesCrambe wildpretii
Crambe kilimandscharica
speciesCrambe kilimandscharica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.478
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.476
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.665
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.673
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.816
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.731
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1471
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1544
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.102
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.669
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.236
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.180
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55400.