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Armoracia
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Armoracia

Armoracia is a genus of flowering plants of the family Brassicaceae, native to the Palaearctic. Its best known member is horseradish, Armoracia rusticana, which is the type species.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Horseradish

speciesArmoracia rusticana

Armoracia sisymbrioides

speciesArmoracia sisymbrioides

Armoracia macrocarpa

speciesArmoracia macrocarpa

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Where it lives

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Armoracia in Ortus sanitatis

Ortus sanitatis

1491 · p.359

Armoracia in The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation

The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation

Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.193

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71987.