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Fortuynia garcinii is a small desert subshrub in the cabbage family, the only species in its genus, native to dry regions of Iran, Afghanistan and western Pakistan. It is a wild plant of arid shrublands and is not commonly grown in gardens.
Fortuynia garcinii is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is the sole species in genus Fortuynia. It is a subshrub native to Iran, Afghanistan, and western Pakistan, where it grows in deserts and dry shrublands.
The species was first described as Peltaria garcinii by Nicolaas Laurens Burman in 1768. In 1841 Robert J. Shuttleworth described and published the genus Fortuynia in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., séries 2, Vol.16 on page 379 in 1841. The genus is named after Mr. Fortuyne, an unknown person from present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Shuttleworth placed the species in genus Fortuynia the following year.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fortuynia garcinii 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.
