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Lupinus luteus (European Yellow Lupine; Yellow Lupin; Tremoceiro; Lupino Amarillo; Tremoco De Flor Amarela; Yellow Lupine)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lupinus luteus is known as annual yellow-lupin or European yellow lupine. It is native to the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe. It occurs on mild sandy and volcanic soils in mining belts. As a wild plant, it is widespread over the coastal area in the western part of the Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, on the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily and in Southern Italy. It is most likely that in Israel and Lebanon it has turned wild. Cultivated in Northern Europe and the CIS (Belarus and Ukraine) as well as, on a smaller scale, in Western Australia and South Africa. Having previously been cultivated in southern France and on Madeira, it has turned wild there. Using combinations of such characters as the colour of the corolla, the carina’s edge, vegetative organs an
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Screening - Summer [2]  Porous
Bloom Period [2]  Late Summer
Drought Tolerance [2]  Low
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [2]  None
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [2]  6 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  Low
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Fall
Growth Form [2]  Single Crown
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Fall, Winter
Growth Rate [2]  Rapid
Hazards [3]  The seed of many lupin species contain bitter-tasting toxic alkaloids, though there are often sweet varieties within that species that are completely wholesome; Taste is a very clear indicator. These toxic alkaloids can be leeched out of the seed by soaking it overnight and discarding the soak water. It may also be necessary to change the water once during cooking; Fungal toxins also readily invade the crushed seed and can cause chronic illness;
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Annual
Pollinators [3]  Bees
Propagation [2]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [2]  Slow
Root Depth [2]  10 inches (25 cm)
Scent [3]  The flowers have a delicious vanilla-like perfume;
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [2]  Medium
Seeds Per [2]  3600 / lb (7937 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [3]  A good green manure for poor soils, it is quite fast growing and fixes atmospheric nitrogen; It is commonly grown as a soil improver in southern Europe;
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Green
Fall Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Flower Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [3]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [3]  10 inches (0.25 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 9 Low Temperature: 20 F° (-6.7 C°) → 30 F° (-1.1 C°)
Light Preference [2]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Water Use [2]  Moderate
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Monti Lepini 115954 Italy  
Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park II 33648 Italy

Predators

Cecyropa discors[5]
Colias lesbia[6]
Lacombia bouhelieri[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Helicotylenchus dihystera (Steiner's spiral nematode)[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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