Crambe

Crambe is a genus of about 20 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the cabbage family Brassicaceae, native to a variety of habitats in Europe, Turkey, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. They carry dense racemes of tiny white or yellow flowers on (mostly leafless) stems above the basal leaves.

The word "crambe" derives, via the Latin crambe, from the Greek κράμβη, a kind of cabbage.

The genus includes among its species:-

  • Crambe abyssinica, grown for an oil from the seeds that has similar characteristics to whale oil
  • Crambe cordifolia, an herbaceous perennial
  • Crambe maritima (seakale), a halophyte sometimes used as a leaf vegetable
  • Crambe species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the lime-speck pug.

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    Crambe (disambiguation)

    Crambe (disambiguation)

  • Crambe, North Yorkshire
  • Crambeck near Crambe in Yorkshire, famous as having been a Roman encampment
  • Crambe, a genus of about 20 species of annual and perennial flowering plants
    • Crambe maritima (common name sea kale, seakale or crambe), a species of halophytic flowering plant in the genus Crambe
    • Crambe cordifolia, syn. Crambe glabrata DC. (greater sea kale, colewort, heartleaf crambe), a species of flowering plant
    • Crambe abyssinica, an oilseed crop, native to the Mediterranean
  • Crambe maritima (common name sea kale, seakale or crambe), a species of halophytic flowering plant in the genus Crambe
  • Crambe cordifolia, syn. Crambe glabrata DC. (greater sea kale, colewort, heartleaf crambe), a species of flowering plant
  • Crambe abyssinica, an oilseed crop, native to the Mediterranean
  • Crambe oil, an inedible seed oil, extracted from the seeds of the Crambe abyssinica
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