Reseda (plant)

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Reseda (plant)

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Reseda

Reseda lutea (wild mignonette)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Resedaceae
Genus:	Reseda L.
Species
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Reseda /rɪˈsiːdə/,^[1] also known as the mignonette /ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt/,^[2] is a genus of fragrant herbaceous plants native to Europe, southwest Asia and North Africa, from the Canary Islands and Iberia east to northwest India.

Description

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Reseda includes herbaceous annual, biennial and perennial species 40–130 cm (20–50 in) tall. The leaves form a basal rosette at ground level, and then spirally arranged up the stem; they can be entire, toothed or pinnate, and range from 1–15 cm (0.4–5.9 in) long. The flowers are produced in a slender spike, each flower small (4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) diameter), white, yellow, orange, or green, with four to six petals. The fruit is a small dry capsule containing several seeds.

Cultivation and uses

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Propagation is by seed, which is surface-sown directly into the garden or grass verge. The plant does not take well to transplanting and should not be moved after sowing.

Mignonette flowers are extremely fragrant. It is grown for the sweet ambrosial scent of its flowers. It is used in flower arrangements, perfumes and potpourri. A Victorian favourite, it was commonly grown in pots and in window-boxes to scent the city air. It was used as a sedative and a treatment for bruises in Roman times. The volatile oil is used in perfumery. Yellow dye was obtained from the roots of R. luteola by the first millennium BC, and perhaps earlier than either woad or madder. Use of this dye came to an end at the beginning of the twentieth century, when cheaper synthetic yellow dyes came into use.^[3]

Charles Darwin used R. odorata in his studies of self-fertilised plants, which he documented in The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom.

Species

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As of March 2014^[update] The Plant List recognises 41 accepted species (including infraspecific names):^[4]

Reseda alba L. White Mignonette
- subsp. myriosperma (Murb.) Maire
Reseda arabica Boiss.
Reseda aucheri Boiss.
Reseda barrelieri Bertol. ex Müll.Arg.
Reseda bucharica Litv.
Reseda complicata Bory Glaucous Mignonette
Reseda decursiva Forssk.
Reseda ellenbeckii Perkins
Reseda glauca L.
Reseda globulosa Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
Reseda gredensis (Cutanda & Willk.) Müll.Arg.
Reseda inodora Rchb.
Reseda jacquinii Rchb.
- subsp. litigiosa (Sennen & Pau) Abdallah & de Wit
Reseda lanceolata Lag.
Reseda lutea L. Wild Mignonette
- subsp. neglecta (Müll.Arg.) Abdallah & de Wit
Reseda luteola L. Weld
- subsp. biaui (Pit.) Maire
Reseda media Lag.
Reseda minoica Martín-Bravo & Jim.Mejías
Reseda muricata C.Presl
Reseda odorata L. Common Mignonette
Reseda orientalis (Müll.Arg.) Boiss.
Reseda paui Valdés Berm. & Kaercher
- subsp. almijarensis Valdés Berm. & Kaercher
Reseda phyteuma L. Corn Mignonette
- subsp. collina (Müll.Arg.) Batt.
Reseda pruinosa Delile
Reseda scoparia Brouss. ex Willd. Canaries Mignonette
Reseda stenostachya Boiss.
Reseda stricta Pers.
Reseda suffruticosa Loefl.
- subsp. barrelieri (Bertol. ex Muller) Fern. Casas, Molero & J. Pujadas
Reseda tymphaea Hausskn.
- subsp. anatolica (Boiss.) Abdallah & de Wit
Reseda undata L.
- subsp. gayana (Boiss.) Valdés Berm.
- subsp. leucantha (Hegelm. ex Lange) Aránega ex Valdés Berm.
Reseda urnigera Webb
Reseda villosa Coss.
Reseda virgata Boiss. & Reut.
Reseda viridis Balf.f.

References

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^ "reseda". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
^ "mignonette". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
^ Daniel Zohary, Maria Hopf and Ehud Weiss, Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Domesticated Plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin, 4th edition (Oxford: University Press, 2012), p. 209
^ "Reseda". The Plant List. Retrieved 31 March 2014.

External links

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Look up reseda or Reseda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

v t e Dyeing
Techniques	Batik Dyeing Ikat Kasuri Kalamkari Katazome Leheria Mordant Reactive dye printing Resist Ring dyeing Rōketsuzome Shibori Tie-dye Tsutsugaki Yūzen
Types of dyes	Dyes Natural Acid Reactive Solvent Substantive Sulfur Vat Disperse Discharge Pigment
Traditional textile dyes	Armenian cochineal Black walnut Bloodroot Brazilin Cochineal Cudbear Cutch Dyewoods Fustic Gamboge Dyer's broom Henna Indigo Kermes Logwood Madder Polish cochineal Saffron Turmeric Tyrian purple Weld Woad
History	Use of saffron Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands
Craft dyes	Dylon Inkodye Procion Rit
Reference	Glossary of dyeing terms List of dyes

Taxon identifiers

Reseda

Wikidata: Q161061
Wikispecies: Reseda
APDB: 194333
APNI: 98309
BioLib: 39260
CoL: 77ST
eFloraSA: Reseda
EoL: 61860
EPPO: 1RESG
FloraBase: 21489
FNA: 128163
FoAO2: Reseda
FoC: 128163
GBIF: 3040250
GRIN: 10325
iNaturalist: 72332
IPNI: 33310-1
IRMNG: 1296151
ISC: 46957
ITIS: 23440
NBN: NHMSYS0000462329
NCBI: 26963
NZOR: 0ad1df80-35c6-407e-a6ae-6c2f07733ed1
Open Tree of Life: 735785
PLANTS: RESED
POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30031016-2
Tropicos: 40023898
VASCAN: 1614
VicFlora: 316b1341-f888-44c3-9f6b-e9a3f0ffdb65
WFO: wfo-4000032773

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