Common horseradish

Family Brassicaceae. Common names: peasant mustard, meat herb, peppery root, wood radish. Parts used: root. Pharmacopoeial name: horseradish root - Armoraciae radix (formerly: Radix Armoraciae).

Botanical description. The thick root of this perennial plant is very long, cylindrical, sometimes radish-like. Basal leaves are large, long-petioled, oblong, toothed at the margin; upper leaves are sessile, lanceolate-linear. White flowers are gathered in a panicle. From them develop swollen oval pods. It flowers in June - July.

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