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Rorippa gigantea

Rorippa gigantea
Photo: Poyt448, Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0

Rorippa gigantea is an annual herb in the cabbage family, native to forests on Australia's east coast, growing up to about 120 cm tall. It is a wild forest plant rather than a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth; it prefers moist forest-floor conditions.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich, well-drained woodland soil.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. & SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Rorippa gigantea is a species of plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. The forest bitter-cress is usually seen as an annual plant, growing to 120 cm high, found in Australian east coast forests.

Other Rorippa plants

Great Yellow-cress · Lake Watercress · Austrian yellowcress · Hoary yellowcress · Columbian yellowcress · Bluntleaf yellowcress · Curvepod yellowcress · Chihuahuan yellowcress · Marsh Yellow-cress · Stalkless yellowcress · Spreading yellowcress · Roundfruit yellowcress

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rorippa gigantea 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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