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Lundy Cabbage

Coincya wrightii

Lundy Cabbage
Photo: Rodw, Public domain
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
SW. Great Britain (SE. Lundy I.)
Climate
temperate

About

Coincya wrightii, known as Lundy cabbage, is a species of primitive brassicoid, endemic to the island of Lundy off the southwestern coast of England, where it is sufficiently isolated to have formed its own species, with its endemic phytophagous beetles. Coincya wrightii grows natively only on the eastern cliffs and slopes of the island and nowhere else in the world and is a protected species. It reaches up to a metre in height and with its yellow flowers (seen from May to August) it looks a little similar to oil seed rape. Although it is a member of the cabbage family, it tastes unpleasant – it has been described as "triple-distilled essence of Brussels sprout".

Other Coincya plants

Wallflower Cabbage · Isle Of Man Cabbage · Star-mustard · Star-mustard · Coincya richeri · Star-mustard

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coincya wrightii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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