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Nasturtiums are beautiful, easy to care for, and edible! Here's how to grow these pretty flowers from seed in your garden or in a pot. Nasturtiums are beautiful, easy to care for, and edible! ...
It is a fast-growing plant, with trailing stems growing to 0.9–1.8 m (3–6 ft). The leaves are large, nearly circular, 3 to 15 cm (1 to 6 in) in diameter, green to glaucous green above, paler below; they are peltate, with the 5–30-cm-long petiole near the middle of the leaf, with several veins radiating to the smoothly rounded or slightly lobed margin.
The nasturtiums received their common name because they produce an oil similar to that of watercress (Nasturtium officinale). The genus Tropaeolum, native to South and Central America, includes several very popular garden plants, the most common being T. majus, T. peregrinum and T. speciosum.
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Watercress or yellowcress (Nasturtium officinale) is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the cabbage family, Brassicaceae. Watercress is a rapidly growing perennial plant native to Eurasia. It is one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans.
Tropaeolum tricolor, the three-coloured Indian cress or Chilean nasturtium, is a species of perennial plant in the family Tropaeolaceae. It is endemic to Chile , [ 1 ] where it is called soldadito rojo and relicario .
Nasturtium (/ n ə ˈ s t ɜːr ʃ əm /) is a genus of a small number of plant species in the family Brassicaceae (cabbage family) commonly known as watercress or yellowcress. [2] The best known species are the edible Nasturtium officinale and Nasturtium microphyllum .
Pages in category "Nasturtium (genus)" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...