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Jaramago de Alborán

Diplotaxis siettiana

Also called Alboran Wall Rocket

Jaramago de Alborán is a small annual wild plant in the cabbage family, known only from Alborán Island in the western Mediterranean. It is a rare conservation species rather than a garden plant, so care notes are general and most of its needs are in the wild-plant setting.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; it is adapted to dry Mediterranean conditions and rots if kept wet.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean climate; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Spain (I. de Alborán)
Climate
subtropical

About

Diplotaxis siettiana, known in Spanish as jaramago de Alborán, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is endemic to Alborán Island in the western Mediterranean Sea, where it grows only around the helipad. The natural population became extinct in 1974, but the species was re-introduced from ex-situ conservation in 1999. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Diplotaxis plants

Annual wallrocket · Perennial Wall-rocket · Vineyard Wall Rocket

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diplotaxis siettiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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