raphanus

Two or three species are currently classified in Raphanus.

May your highness be pleased to send me a round pot of raphanus oil.

Raphanus is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae.

The name derives from the Greek, "raphanus", meaning radish, and presumably refers to the sponge's shape.

Examples of such terms are salt and sodium chloride, radish and raphanus sativus.

Raphanus species grow as annual or biennial plants, with a taproot which is much enlarged in the cultivated radish.

Raphanus raphanistrum ssp.

Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish or jointed charlock, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae.

Raphanus sativus (I)

Raphanus raphanistrum (wild radish)

The descriptive Greek name of the genus Raphanus means "quickly appearing" and refers to the rapid germination of these plants.

Unlike many other genera in the family Brassicaceae, Raphanus has indehiscent fruit that do not split open at maturity to reveal the seeds.

The podding radish, or rattail radish, is a plant of the genus Raphanus, named for its edible seed pods.

This species can be distinguished from the rather similar Sycon raphanus by the fact that the choanocyte chambers are not fused but are free from each other.

It causes downy mildew of species of Brassica, Raphanus, Sinapis and probably other genera within the Brassicaceae.

Raphanus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including cabbage moth, Endoclita excrescens, the garden carpet and the nutmeg.

The early Renaissance herbalists Pietro Andrea Mattioli and John Gerard showed it under Raphanus.

Raphanus raphanistrum (WILD RADISH)

Three species of lice were found to parasitize the Guadalupe Storm Petrel: the menoponids Longimenopon dominicanum and Austromenopon oceanodromae, and the ischnoceran Halipeurus raphanus.

The classification of the raphanus genus is currently not well agreed upon, but during the antique and medieval times, all kinds of horseradishes and similar plants were commonly included in this genus.

In The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597), John Gerard describes it under the name of raphanus rusticanus, stating that it occurs wild in several parts of England.

Alyssum, Arabidopsis, Arabis, Armoracia, Barbarea, Boechera, Draba (of which he revised many South American members ), Erucastrum, Nasturtium, Raphanus, Rorippa, Schizopetalon, Sisymbrium, and Tropidocarpum are among the genera in which he has identified plant species.