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Fagonia cretica is a species of plant in the caltrop family (Zygophyllaceae). It is native to dry regions of the Mediterranean Basin in North Africa (in Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt), Southern Europe (in the Balearic Islands, Southeast Spain, Sicily, and Greece) and West Asia (in Saudi Arabia and the Sinai peninsula).[1]

Fagonia cretica
Bright sunlight: Flower, stems, and leaves
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Zygophyllales
Family:	Zygophyllaceae
Genus:	Fagonia
Species:	F. cretica
Binomial name
Fagonia cretica L.

Fagonia cretica is a plant of rocky coastlines. It is a creeping plant and has star-shaped, 5-narrow petal, violet to light violet flowers.

Properties

The plant has a sweet, bitter, sharp and sour taste according to different stages of growth and parts. The flowers are purple. The plant has a large number of small fruits near the thorns.

References

External links

• "University of the Balearic Islands" Species analysis-Fagonia cretica — herbarivirtual.uib.es

На других языках

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El manto de la virgen, rosa de la virgen (Fagonia cretica L.) es una especie de planta de la familia Zygophyllaceae. Especie descrita ya en el año 1620 por Caspar Bauhin, botánico y médico suizo, como Trifolium spinosum Creticum (en nomenclatura no binomial).

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