Erucastrum gallicum

French Hundsrauke ( Erucastrum gallicum )

The French Hundsrauke ( Erucastrum gallicum ) belongs to the genus of Hundsrauken.

Description

The French Hundsrauke is a one to two year old 10-60 cm tall plant. The upright, branched stem is hairy at the base. The leaves are pinnately divided fiederlappig up, with each side 4-8 sections. The lower flowers are in the axils of bracts. The sepals are 4-5 mm long, somewhat hairy and standing almost upright. The petals are are 7-9 mm long, pale yellow- whitish, rare golden.

Bloom time is from May to October.

The pods are 25-50 mm long, 5-15 mm they are on long stalks. The fruit beak is 2-4 mm long, clearly separated from the rest of the fruit and he bears no seeds. The seeds are oblong- ovate, 1-1.3 mm long and 0.6-0.8 mm wide.

Ingredients

The seeds of the French Hundsrauke contain gluconapin and sinigrin from which Butylsenföl and allyl be cleaved.

Popularization

The French Hundsrauke is mainly subatlantisch, in West and Central Europe spread north and east of it, it occurs only as a neophyte, and in North America it is introduced.

Locations

The French Hundsrauke need base-rich, but only moderately nitrogen-containing, slightly moist, loose, interspersed with sandy loam soil.

They inhabited wastelands and root crop fields, but also goes on gappy overgrown wasteland, and it is found sometimes on railway ballast and along roadsides.

In central Europe it occurs in the lowlands on sporadically, as in the Swiss Jura and the Alps; from the Middle Rhine to the High Rhine, Neckar and the Danube River ( to the east of Vienna ) and in the foothills of the Alps is found rarely, and usually only occurs there impermanent.