Ecballium elaterium
Ecbalium elaterium
Eşek hıyarı
Perennial herb. Stems prostrate, stout, hispid, pale green, to 25 cm. Leaves rather thick, stiff, deep green and scabrid above, pale green and densely hispid-tomentose beneath, ovate-triangular, cordate, sinuate and undulate at the margins, rather concave above, shortly 5-lobed with the basal lobes ± erect, 4-14,5 x 3,5-17 cm. Peduncles erect, hispid, 2-10 cm. Male flowers in 3,5-3,7 cm racemes; petals 8-16 x 4-7 mm. Female flowers often co-axillary with male; peduncles 1-8 cm; petals 6-12 x 3-6 mm. Fruit pendulous, 3-5 x 1,5-2,5 cm. Pulp exceedingly bitter. Seeds about 4 mm. Fl. 4-10. Waste places, roadsides, river banks, s.l.-600m.
Azores; Mediterranean area, S. Russia, Crimea, Caucasia. Medit. element.
