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Taxon:  Tropaeolum majus L.



Summary
Genus:
Tropaeolum
Section:
Tropaeolum
Family:
Tropaeolaceae
Nomen number:
40686
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:345; 2: errata. 1753
Verified:
12/31/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Babu, C. R. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. 1977 Note: cultivated
  3. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993
  4. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  5. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
  6. Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 Note: Kampong Publications
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Tropaeolum+majus&quantity=1
  8. Greuter, W. et al., eds. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). 2000 Art. 23.5, Ex. 5. http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm
  9. Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. Flora of Ecuador. 1973-
  10. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  11. Kunkel, G. Plants for human consumption. 1984
  12. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  13. Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. Flora of Peru. 1936-1971; new ser. 1980-
  14. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  15. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  16. Navas-Bustamante, L. E. Flora de la cuenca de Santiago de Chile. 1973-1979
  17. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  18. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  19. Soukup, J. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. 1970
  20. Sparre, B. & L. Andersson. 1991. A taxonomic revision of the Tropaeolaceae. Opera Bot. 108:67.
  21. Steward, A. N. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. 1958 Note: cultivated
  22. Walker, E. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. 1976 Note: cultivated
  23. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
garden nasturtium –
Indian cress –
nasturtium –
French
cresson d'Inde –
grande capucine –
German
Kapuzinerkresse –
Portuguese
chagas –
Spanish
capuchina –
mastuerzo –
Swedish
indiankrasse –
Transcribed Chinese
han jin lian –
Distribution
Cultivated (only cult.)
Other (probable hybrid origin South America)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Human food
vegetable (fide Cornucopia; Food Feed Crops US) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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