Brassica elongata
Brassica elongata
Uzun şalgam
Biennial to perennial, often with a thick woody base, up to 1 m. Stem usually glabrous , pale green, often violet-coloured at the base. Lower leaves petiolate, oblong-ovate, often bright green, entire or coarsely toothed, with tubercled curved bristles on both sides. Upper leaves oblong or lanceolate, shortly stalked. Petals yellow, 6-10 x 3-4 mm. Ovary c. 15-ovulate. Fruiting pedicels 6-14 mm, spreading, glabrous. Siliquae linear, 1.5-4.5 cm x 1-2.5 mm, toru-lose; stipe 1-4 mm; beak seedless, 1-2.5 mm. Seeds mucilaginous. Fl. 4-6. Dry rocky slopes, steppe and cultivated fields, 450-1700 m.
C. Europe, Caucasia, Syrian Desert, N. Iran. In Turkey mainly in the Ir.-Tur. region.
