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Technicians at IRRI perform blotter seeding at the Seed Health Unit (SHU) .The SHU does seed healtn testing,dry seed inspection?seed technology,MTA and data management.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
Cakile maritima Scop.
Sea Rocket, DE: Europäischer Meersenf, CR: primorska morguša
Slo.: morska gorjuša
Dat.: June 22. 2010
Lat.: 44.39660 Long.: 14.80066
Code: Bot_431/2010_DSC2814
Habitat: Adriatic Sea shore, flat terrain, pebble beach, open place, full sun, only a few mm away of sea water; elevation 1.5 m (6 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.000 mm/year, average temperature about 14 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region.
Substratum: sandy soil among stones.
Place: Adriatic Sea; Island Olib, 'Slatina' beach, Kvarner bay, Rijeka region, Croatia EC.
Comment: Cakile maritima is a typical Mediterranean species of huge family Cruciferae, which is generally easy to recognize by (usually) opposite leaves and four separate sepals and petals forming a typical cross. It is common throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions and on Canard islands. Yet, it is almost extinct from the short Slovenian Adriatic Sea shore because of development. Cakile maritima is a modest, non-spectacular plant, with tender, white to pink or pale violet flowers with pleasant odor and lot of honey. When it starts to flower their buds and flowers are in densely packed inflorescence, but later, when seeds develop its flowering stalks gradually become much, much longer. It grows very close to the sea, on sand and pebble beaches in an area, which is often splashed by waves and hence it must be a salt tolerant plant. Indeed it tastes salty and slightly burning similar to a kind of mustard. Its seeds are spread by sea water streams on long distances. For this purpose its seeds float on water.
Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroženih rastlinskih in živalskih vrst v rdeči seznam, Uradni list RS, št. 82/2002 (Regulation of enlisting of endangered plant and animal species onto Red List, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 82/2002) (2002). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "E" representing a critically endangered species.
Ref.:
(1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 452.
(2) I. Schӧnfelder, P. Schӧnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 60.
(x) I. Schӧnfelder, P. Schӧnfelder, Was blüht am Mittelmeer? Kosmos (2000), p xx.
(3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 68.
(4) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) (in Croatian), Školska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 127.