Alien
Annual or biennial herb ; up to 50(-100) cm tall with a white , slender tuberous tap-root . Stems erect , branched distally , sparsely hairy to glabrous . Leaves with lower leaves up to 25×7 cm , variable in shape but generally lyrate-pinnatisect , dentate-serrate ; upper cauline leaves narrower , simple , sessile . Inflorescences borne on erect , many-flowered racemes . Flowers white to pink or pale violet ; sepals 5 . 5-10 mm ; petals 15-20 mm . Fruit siliqua , 30-70×7-10(-15) mm , smooth , beaked , fleshy , not or scarcely constricted between the seeds , the walls spongy . Seeds 2 . 5-4 mm , globose or ovoid . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Common
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Radish
Caudatus
Rat's Tail
As a food. Eaten as green salad with other vegetables. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://swbiodiversity.org *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758. *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
