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Sinapis alba (White mustard)

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Wikipedia Abstract

White mustard (Sinapis alba) is an annual plant of the family Brassicaceae. It is sometimes also referred to as Brassica alba or B. hirta. Grown for its seeds, mustard, as fodder crop or as a green manure, it is now widespread worldwide, although it probably originated in the Mediterranean region.
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Infraspecies

Sinapis alba alba (White mustard) (Attributes)
Sinapis alba dissecta
Sinapis alba mairei
Sinapis alba var. corsica

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The seed contains substances that irritate the skin and mucous membranes; The plant is possibly poisonous once the seedpods have formed;
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Wind
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  The seed contains up to 35% of a semi-drying oil; It is used as a lubricant and for lighting etc; The plant can be grown as a green manure crop; It is very fast growing, producing a good bulk in just a few weeks from seed, but it is shallow rooted so does not do so well in dry periods; It is also susceptible to all the diseases of the cabbage family such as club-root so is best avoided if this is likely to be a problem;
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hyaloperonospora parasitica[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0