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Brassica oleracea L.

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New Zealand
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Brassica oleracea L.
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Brassica oleracea

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oleracea

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Brassica oleracea L.

Biennial to perennial herb usually with lax rosette. Stems erect or ascending, glabrous, 1-2-(3) m tall, becoming woody below with prominent lf base scars. Lvs all glabrous and glaucous. Lower lvs petiolate, obovate or elliptic, 10-30 × 5-15 cm, not lobed or lyrate-pinnatifid with large terminal and 1-(2) pairs of small lateral lobes; margins sinuate, toothed. Upper lvs less divided, sessile, amplexicaul, elliptic-oblong or narrowly triangular, entire or toothed, 2-10 × 0.7-2 cm. Racemes to 60 cm long; open fls well below level of buds. Sepals narrow-oblong, (7)-8-11 × (1.5)-2-3 mm. Petals pale yellow or white, 15-25 × 5-8 mm. All stamens erect. Silique terete, glabrous, linear-lanceolate, slightly constricted between seeds, 50-60-(80) × 3-4 mm; gynophore 0; valves with prominent median and weaker lateral network of veins; beak conic, usually seedless, 5-10-(15) mm long. Seeds dark brown with greyish bloom, c. 2 mm diam.

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Brassica oleracea L.
Brassica oleracea L.
Brassica oleracea L.
Brassica oleracea L.
Brassica oleracea L.
Brassica oleracea L.
Brassica oleracea L.
Brassica oleracea L.

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Brassica oleracea L.
France
Brassica oleracea L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Brassica oleracea L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Brassica oleracea L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Brassica oleracea L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Brassica oleracea L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Brassica oleracea L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Brassica oleracea L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Brassica oleracea L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 June 2008
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