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Armoracia rusticana (horseradish)
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| Habit | Armoracia rusticana (horseradish); habit, growing wild, in the Elbe floodplains. North-eastern Lower Saxony, Germany. July 2009. | ©Christian Fischer-2009/via wikipedia - CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Flowers | Armoracia rusticana (horseradish); inflorescence. Karlsruhe, Germany. May 2009. | ©H. Zell-2009/via wikipedia - CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Fruits | Armoracia rusticana (horseradish); fruits. Karlsruhe, Germany. | ©H. Zell-2009/via wikipedia - CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Crop | Armoracia rusticana (horseradish); roots (hren) for sale on a local market. Ljubljana, Slovenia. March 2016. | ©Amanda Slater-2016, Coventry, West Midlands, UK/via wikipedia - CC BY-SA 2.0 | |
| Morphology | Armoracia rusticana (horseradish); morphology. (A) flowering plant; (B) primary root; (C) part of inflorescence; (D) flower; (E) stamens; (F) immature fruit. (not necessarily to scale). | ©PROSEA Foundation |
Identity
Top of pagePreferred Scientific Name
- Armoracia rusticana P.G. Gaertner, B. Meyer & J. Scherbius
Preferred Common Name
- horseradish
Other Scientific Names
- Armoracia lapathifolia Gilibert (1782)
- Cardamine armoracia (L.) Kuntze
- Cochlearia armoracia L. (1753)
- Nasturtium armoracia (L.) Fries (1835)
- Rorippa rusticana (G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb.) Godr.
International Common Names
- Spanish: rabano picante; rabano rusticano
- French: cran; cranson; mérédic; raifort; raifort sauvage
- Portuguese: armoracia
Local Common Names
- Germany: Echter Meerrettich; Kren
- Italy: cren; rafano rusticana
- Japan: seiyowasabi; wasabidaikon
- Netherlands: mierik
- Philippines: kamunggay
- Sweden: pepparrot
EPPO code
- ARWLA (Armoracia lapathifolia)
Taxonomic Tree
Top of page- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Spermatophyta
- Subphylum: Angiospermae
- Class: Dicotyledonae
- Order: Capparidales
- Family: Brassicaceae
- Genus: Armoracia
- Species: Armoracia rusticana
List of Pests
Top of pageMajor host of:
Albugo candida (white rust of crucifers); Alternaria brassicae (dark spot of crucifers); Alternaria brassicicola (dark leaf spot of cabbage); Arabis mosaic virus (hop bare-bine); Athalia rosae (cabbage leaf sawfly); Chrysodeixis eriosoma (green looper caterpillar); Circulifer tenellus (beet leafhopper); Heterodera schachtii (beet cyst eelworm); Hyalopterus pruni (mealy plum aphid); Myzus persicae (green peach aphid); Phyllotreta armoraciae (horseradish flea beetle); Pieris protodice (checkered white); Plutella xylostella (diamondback moth); Spiroplasma citri (stubborn disease of citrus); Thrips tabaci (onion thrips); Turnip mosaic virus (cabbage A virus mosaic); Xanthomonas campestris (black rot of crucifers); Xanthomonas campestris pv. armoraciae (Xanthomonas leaf spot)Minor host of:
Chalara elegans (black root rot); Colletotrichum dematium (leaf spot); Epitrix tuberis (tuber flea beetle); Gibberella avenacea (Fusarium blight); Halyomorpha halys (brown marmorated stink bug); Hyaloperonospora cochleariae; Hyaloperonospora parasitica (downy mildew); Otiorhynchus armadillo (armadillo weevil); Pieris brassicae (large cabbage white); Pseudomonas marginalis pv. marginalis (lettuce marginal leaf blight); Rhizobium radiobacter (crown gall); Rhizobium rhizogenes (gall); Thrips angusticeps (field thrips); Trichoplusia ni (cabbage looper); Verticillium dahliae (verticillium wilt)Wild host of:
Delia radicum (cabbage root fly); Erwinia rhapontici (rhubarb crown rot); Pieris rapae (cabbage white butterfly)Host of (source - data mining):
Frankliniella tritici (eastern flower thrips)Uses List
Top of pageHuman food and beverage
- Spices and culinary herbs
Materials
- Poisonous to mammals
Medicinal, pharmaceutical
- Traditional/folklore