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Summary
Physical Characteristics
Cleome viscosa is a ANNUAL growing to 1.5 m (5ft).
It is frost tender. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs).
Suitable for: light (sandy) and medium (loamy) soils and prefers well-drained soil. Suitable pH: mildly acid, neutral and basic (mildly alkaline) soils. It cannot grow in the shade. It prefers dry or moist soil.
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Synonyms
Plant Habitats
Cultivated Beds;
Edible Uses
Edible Parts: Leaves Oil Shoots
Edible Uses: Condiment Oil
Leaves and young shoots - cooked as a vegetable[272]. A sharp mustard-like flavour[183]. The pungent seed can be pickled or used as a mustard substitute in curries[183, 272]. The seedpods are made into pickles[183]. The juice of the plant is used as a condiment[183]. An oil obtained from the seeds is used for cooking[272].
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Medicinal Uses
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Anthelmintic Carminative Diaphoretic Rubefacient Stimulant
The leaves are diaphoretic, rubefacient and vesicant[240]. They are used as an external application to wounds and ulcers[240]. The juice of the leaves has been used to relieve earache[240]. The seeds are anthelmintic, carminative, rubefacient, stimulant and vesicant[240, 272]. The seed contains 0.1% viscosic acid and 0.04% viscosin[240]. A paste of the root is applied externally in the treatment of earaches[272].
References More on Medicinal Uses
Other Uses
Oil
None known
Special Uses
References More on Other Uses
Cultivation details
Prefers a light fertile soil in a warm dry sunny position with plenty of room to spread[200]. A frost tender plant, it can be grown as a summer annual in Britain[200].
References Carbon Farming Information and Carbon Sequestration Information
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Plant Propagation
Seed - surface sow or only lightly cover the seed in spring in a greenhouse[164]. The seed usually germinates in 5 - 14 days at 25°c[164]. When large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and plant them out in late spring. Day time temperatures below 20°c depress germination but a night time fall to 20° is necessary[164].
Other Names
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Native Range
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Weed Potential
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Conservation Status
IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants Status :
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Growth: S = slow M = medium F = fast. Soil: L = light (sandy) M = medium H = heavy (clay). pH: A = acid N = neutral B = basic (alkaline). Shade: F = full shade S = semi-shade N = no shade. Moisture: D = dry M = Moist We = wet Wa = water.
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