Taxon: Tropaeolum majus L.

Common names:

• garden nasturtium   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Indian cress   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• nasturtium   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• han jin lian   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• cresson d'Inde   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• grande capucine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Kapuzinerkresse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• chagas   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• capuchina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mastuerzo   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• indiankrasse   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Cornucopia; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

• probable hybrid origin South America

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. [cultivated].
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). Art. 23.5, Ex. 5.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Navas-Bustamante, L. E. 1973–1979. Flora de la cuenca de Santiago de Chile.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
• Sparre, B. & L. Andersson. 1991. A taxonomic revision of the Tropaeolaceae. Opera Bot. 108:67.
• Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. [cultivated].
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. [cultivated].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tropaeolum majus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tropaeolum majus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tropaeolum majus.

Check other web resources for Tropaeolum majus L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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