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Russian tarragon (A. dracunculoides L.) can be grown from seed but is much weaker in flavor when compared to the French variety. [7] However, Russian tarragon is a far more hardy and vigorous plant, spreading at the roots and growing over a meter tall. This tarragon actually prefers poor soils and happily tolerates drought and neglect. It is ...
TKS was cultivated on a large scale in the Soviet Union during World War II.The Soviet Union cultivated Taraxacum kok-saghyz, together with Taraxacum hybernum and Scorzonera tau-saghyz, on a large scale between 1931 and 1950—notably during World War II—as an emergency source of rubber when supplies of rubber from Hevea brasiliensis in Southeast Asia were threatened.
It includes flora taxa that are native to the Russian Far East. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. For the purposes of this category, the "Russian Far East" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. That is, the geographic region known as ...
Note: The country of Russia is not a geographical unit employed in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. The following categories should be used instead where the information is available: Category:Flora of Central European Russia; Category:Flora of East European Russia; Category:Flora of North European Russia
Artemisia dracunculus = Russian tarragon Artemisia dracunculus var. sativa = French tarragon Link to page in Internet Archive, accessed Jan. 7th 2015. source 4 [National Plant Germplasm System (GRIN)]: GRIN just lists both "French tarragon" and "Russian tarragon" in the section "common names" for "Artemisia dracunculus L.".
Taraxacum kok-saghyz, the Russian dandelion, is a species that produced industrially useful amounts during WW2. Using modern cultivation methods and optimization techniques, scientists in the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME) in Germany developed a cultivar of the Russian dandelion that is suitable for current ...
According to the data furnished in the Red Data Book of the Russian Federation, as of 1996, there were 266 mammal species and 780 bird species under protection. [3] Some of the threatened plant species are the Siberian cedar pine, Korean cedar pine in the far eastern part of the country, wild chestnut in the Caucasus. [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a complete and as of 2009 up-to-date list of vascular plants listed in the Red Data Book of the Russian Federation and ...