Orobanche minor
Smith
Lesser broomrape
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Shoots
None known.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate and Mediterranean plant. It grows attached to a range of plants especially legumes. In Africa it grows up to 3,000 m above sea level. Tasmania Herbarium.
Africa, Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Britain, Canary Is., Caucasus, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Crete, Cyprus, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Libya, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mediterranean*, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, North America, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sicily, Socotra, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tunisia, Turkey, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, USA, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
How to Identify
A plant which keeps growing from year to year and which has erect annual shoots. It grows as a parasite living on the roots of clover or tobacco. It grows about 40 cm high. It has glandular hairs. They are brown or yellow. The scale leaves are oval or sword shaped and 1-2 cm long. The flower spike is dense. It becomes lax before flowering. The flowers do not have stalks. The fruit is a capsule 8-9 mm long. There are many seeds.
How to Grow
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Medicinal Uses
None known.
Other Uses
None known.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Orobanche minor, the hellroot, common broomrape, lesser broomrape, small broomrape, broomrape minor or clover broomrape, is a holoparasitic flowering plant belonging to the family Orobanchaceae. It is one of about 150 non-photosynthetic plants in the genus Orobanche that parasitize autotrophic plants.
Notes
There are about 140 Orobanche species.
Names & Synonyms
References (8)
- Blamey, M and Grey-Wilson, C., 2005, Wild flowers of the Mediterranean. A & C Black London. p 417
- Curtis, W.M., 1993, The Student's Flora of Tasmania. Part 3 St David's Park Publishing, Tasmania, p 533
- Flora of Australia Volume 49, Oceanic Islands 1, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. (1994) p 341
- Hussey, B.M.J., Keighery, G.J., Cousens, R.D., Dodd, J., Lloyd, S.G., 1997, Western Weeds. A guide to the weeds of Western Australia. Plant Protection Society of Western Australia. p 188
- Kew Plants of the World Online
- Paczkowska, G . & Chapman, A.R., 2000, The Western Australian Flora. A Descriptive Calatogue. Western Australian Herbarium. p 415
- Smith & Sowerby, Engl. bot. 6: t. 422. 1797
- Tasmanian Herbarium Vascular Plants list p 42
