Eutrema tenue ("Yuriwasabi")

Japanese name: ユリワサビ （百合山葵）
Scientific name: Eutrema tenue

[Overview]
A perennial 20–30 cm tall, found beside mountain streams and similar places.
It has bulbil-like leaves in which the base of the leaf stalk is thickened.
These bulbil-like leaves detach and become new seedlings.
The leaves are simple, basal or alternate, ovate-cordate, with coarse wavy teeth on the margin.
The base of the leaf stalk is swollen.
The leaves remain after flowering.
A short raceme emerges at the stem tip and bears sparse flowers.
The flowers are white with 4 petals, and the petals are about 4–6 mm long.
The fruit is a silique.

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