Scientific Name: Rorippa gigantea

Common Name: large bittercress

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Brassicaceae

Form Description: Herb with coarse, erect or ascending branches.

Height (m): 0.6 – 1.2

Flowers: Small, with white, obovate, spreading petals.

Fruit: Capsule 2.5-4 cm long on stalks about 1cm long, spreading. Seeds oval with ridges running longitudinally and pits between, with narrow membranous wing.

Municipality
Break O’DayClarenceDorsetGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHobartHuon ValleyKing IslandSouthern MidlandsWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Wet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

Occasional in moist forests.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Shady

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Well-drained

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
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  • Seed Collecting Month
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  • Sowing Month
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  • Cutting Month
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Propagation Method
Seed

Seed Information

Seed Treatment Method

Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.