Government Pavilion, C/ Padre Herrera s/n
P.O. Box 456
38200, San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Spain
Switchboard Tel.: (+34) 922 31 90 00
Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Canary Islands Flora Garden
Brassicaceae
Descurainia millefolia (Jacq.) Webb & Berthel.
Canary Island reedbed
A small, woody shrub up to 1.5 m tall, highly branched, with fragile stems. Leaves arranged in rosettes at the tips of the woody branches, tripinnatisect. Lobes are lanceolate to linear, acute, and grayish-green. Flowers have four petals arranged in a cross shape, are yellow, and are arranged in terminal racemes. Fruits are siliques (longer than wide) very similar to legumes, but with two cavities. Endemic to the Canary Islands.
