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Knowledge of the habits of representatives of one family and the list of plants belonging to this family greatly facilitates the maintenance of gardening. After all, because botanists have united them into communities, as a rule, such plants have the same requirements for soils, lighting, watering, and temperature conditions. And the enemies that threaten their health and crops are the same
Family Cruciferous
The family got its name for the shape of the corolla of a flower with four petals. Most often, these petals are located in such a way that they look at all four sides, forming a regular cross.
True, today the family began to be called"
Cabbage , Thus paying tribute to the main vegetable, which is included in the diet of different nations, regardless of skin color and religion, and therefore is a unifying link for Mankind.
Popular cruciferous plants
The popularity of individual plant species in the family is a changeable thing. Some species, which were the staple food of entire nations, are replaced over time by others. Let's list some of them:
* Cabbage - it is not for nothing that they call it "the vegetable of the world." Man began to "tame" wild cabbage 5 thousand years ago. In the wild, today it can be found on the mountain slopes of the Mediterranean, and in cultural plantings - all over the globe.
For a long friendship with man, cabbage has transformed beyond recognition, giving life to a wide variety of species. These are miniature heads of Brussels sprouts and multi-kilogram heads of white-headed beauty; funny heads of kohlrabi; fleshy inflorescences of cauliflower and broccoli.
The vitamin qualities of cabbage are known to everyone, and the healing juice is able to defeat stomach ulcers.
* Turnip - the fate of the turnip is amazing. Being the "second bread" for Europeans and Russians, it was supplanted by the assertive newcomer from America, the potato. Offended, she moved overseas, and today the United States of America is the leader in growing turnips.
* Radish - bitter by nature, after the witchcraft of the breeders it turned into a juicy radish, and even sweet radish is grown in Japan, which is distinguished by its large size (up to 16 kg in weight).
* Horseradish - which is not sweeter than the previous vegetable, but is a favorite seasoning for dishes, for which you do not need to travel across three seas.
* Oil plants - in addition to the listed vegetables, among the Cruciferous there are plants that give a person vegetable oil. This is well-known
mustardlesser known
rape and
rapegrowing in vegetable gardens as a weed. By the way, Sarepta mustard, cultivated in our country, was also once considered a weed, infesting flax plantations. So, "weed" is a temporary status of a plant, which has not yet reached the hands and mind of man.
* Ornamental plants - a family of more than 3 thousand species could not do without ornamental plants. Among them there are old acquaintances of gardeners, and there are also rare plants that are slowly disappearing from the face of the Earth, not without the "help" of man. Let's admire some of them:
** Mattiola (Levkoy), which is also an excellent honey plant (see more information here -
** Lunnik, used in the old days for medicinal purposes, and therefore rarely found in nature today. By the way, the perennial Lunnik is an excellent ornamental plant for shady areas of the garden.
** Iberis - a plant with very beautiful and fragrant flowers. It is also interesting in that the people who inhabited today’s 5 thousand years ago continue to live in its name.
Pyrenean peninsula, once called “
Iberian", And" dissolved "among the invaders of these lands, which at different times were different. In such an unusual way, the destinies of peoples and plants are sometimes intertwined. (Additional information about the plant is here -
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