BFN Priority Species of TURKEY
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BFN Priority species of TURKEY AEGEAN REGION Wild plants, land race and wild mushroom studied in Aegean Region of Turkey English Photograph Turkish name Local Names Description Habitat Parts used The way to consume Family Botanical name name Amaranthaceae Beta maritima L. Sea beet Kıyı pancarı Deli pazı, yabani Sea beets are glabrous or Coastal areas, Rosette leave Its leaves are served raw pancar, yaban pazısı, slightly hairy, erect, prostrate field borders, or cooked and used in ova mancarı, pezik, or procumbent perennial in sandy soil. pies and pancakes, deniz pancarı, dağ herbaceous plants with a The inland omelets, soups, stuffed for pancarı, kır pazısı, number of stems. It flowers forms are dolma, roasted or boiled zık, yaban pancarı, from May to August. found at steps and used as salad, served kara mancar, kara in well drained with or without yogurt. pancar, deli ıspanak, sandy soils Sea beets are also cooked yaban ıspanağı, as spinach. düdüklü ıspanak Amaranthaceae Salicornia emericii Duval-Jouve, Glasswort or Deniz börülcesi Kurşun otu, tuzlu ot, Glasswort is perennial, erect Coastal salt Young plants Glasswort is usually Lectotype:Salicornia europaea L. Samphire geren otu fleshy maritime plant with marshes. cooked or steamed and fleshy stems and simple then coated in olive oil leaves. It has small spikes of and lemon or yogurt as minute flowers. It flowers salad. It is also used raw. from July to September Apiaceae Crithmum maritimum L. Rock Deniz teresi, Deniz rezenesi,deniz Rock samphire is erect to Maritime rocks Young plants The stems, flowers and samphire Kaya koruğu marulu, deniz otu, decumbent hairless perennial, and boulder leaves and leaves are pickled. Leaves ada börülcesi, deniz to 50 cm high. Leaves are beaches. flower buds are used fresh or boiled in koruğu, deniz entire, 1-2-pinnate with linear, salads. It is also cooked keneviri, kereviz otu, succulent, cylindrical lobes omelet genevir, girdama, and aromatic when crushed. gövelek, kulak otu, Flowers are yellowish green. kişgil Stew, pickle, salad, omelet Apiaceae Foeniculum vulgare Mill. Fennel Arapsaçı Rezene, çaşır, çaşıra, Fennel is a perennial, Arid cliffs, Whole plant Highly aromatic and kokar ot, malatura, umbelliferous plant. It has slopes and flavorful leaves are used erezene, raziyane, thick, white rootstalk and riverbanks in in various foods and as sıra, marata hollow, striated stems. Leaves spring. seasoning. Boiled leaves with anise smell, are feathery, are used in salad and deeply cut, alternate and triply roasted. Pilaf, omelet, pinnate. Flowers are yellow, salad, pie, pancake, soup produced in large terminal are cooked. umbels. Fruits are cylindrical, smooth and greenish brown color. The plant flowers from July to September. Meal, roasted, pilaf, seasoning Apiaceae Opopanax hispidus (Friv.) Gris. Yellow Herb Kaymacık, Sarı ot, sarı bacı, Opoanax is a perennial Fields, stony Young basal kaymaklık, kaymak herbaceous plant that can places, salty leave Young leaves from the otu, kırk sıralı, grow up to 160 cm. It sediments, base of stews are cooked gaymecik, tülü ot, produces small clusters of field edge. with tomato paste. Leaves kekire yellow flowers. Lower leaves are also roasted with or pinnate with lobes. It Flowers without cream and milk. It in May-July. is boiled and roasted with egg (Omelet) and served with or without yogurt. Opopanax pancake is also common.. meal, roasted, omelet Apiaceae Smyrnium olusatrum L. Alexanders Deli kereviz Yabani kereviz, The plants are stout to 100- Road sides, in Leaves, young Alexanders is baldıran 150 cm high, with a solid stem field and field stems and the intermediate in flavor which becomes hollow with borders, on buds between celery and age. The leaves are bluntly cliff paths, parsley. It is used roasted, toothed, the segments seaside. stewed or fried and used ternately divided. The flowers in salads, rice, omelet, are yellow-green in color, and pie, sauce and soups. It its fruits are black. They are was also used as a flowering March to May. medicinal herb Asteraceae Glebionis coronaria (L.) Spach, Crown Daisy Alagömeç Ale gümeci, sarı Crown daisy is 15-70 cm tall a Sea sides, road Young sprouts Crown daisy is used in the Syn: Chrysanthemum segetum L. papatya, öküz gözü, leafy annual herb. It has sides, in fields recipes of omelets, soup, koyun gözü, yabani yellow, cream, white ray an field bulgur and roasted salads krizantem florets grouped in small flower borders. with or without yogurt heads and aromatic, bipinnately lobed leaves. Flowering time is from March to June. Asteraceae Cichorium intybus L. Chicory Hindiba Hindibag, yabani Chicory is hairy or glabrous a Roadsides, Whole young The leaves are boiled or hindiba, kara hindiba, perennial herbaceous plant fields, orchards plant/ rosette used raw for salad. Leaves tatlı hindiba, ak with 20-100 cm height. It has and leaves, roots are simply roasted or hindiba, günek, backward curved toothed mixed with herbs or güneyik, yatlı günek, leaves at base. Stem leaves are roasted with or without ak günek, radika, similar but sessile. It has scrambled eggs. It is bahçe radikası, altlık, bright blue flowers. Flowtime cooked as soup, omelet çatlangoz is from April to September. and made the patties. Dry leaves used as tea. Roots are also baked and used as a coffee substitute Meal, salad, omelet Asteraceae Scolymus hispanicus L. Golden Şevketi bostan Akkız, akçakızı, altın It is an herbaceous biennial or Humid areas, Roots, young Spiny leaves are stripped thistle dikeni, ak dikeni, short-lived perennial plant roadsides, leaves and roots cleaned and diken otu,çetmi growing to 80 cm tall, with fallow lands. used to cook dishes with dikeni, sarı diken, spiny stems and leaves. The meat and roasting. The sütlü diken, süt flowers are bright yellow to roots and young leaves of dikeni, güzel hisar orange-yellow. Flowering golden thistle also used in dikeni lasts from May to September. salads, soups, egg dishes. Stew, salad, soup, omelet, meal Brassicaceae Raphanus raphanistrum L. Wild Radish Eşek turpu Turpotu, yaban turpu Wild radish is an annual herb . Fallow fields, Young lives yabani turp, çalgıcı usually 15–50 cm high, simple orchards, and buds Wild radish is roasted or otu, yabani hardal or branched, stems scabrous; vineyards, stewed and used in taproot wiry to stout but not neglected various dishes as salad, fleshy. Lower leaves 15–20 gardens, meals, omelet and soup cm long, lyrate-pinnatisect roadsides, and with 1–4 pairs of distant lobes, other disturbed scabrous. Flowers are usually locations. pale yellow, more rarely white or with pinkish.. Plant flowers in May-September, bears fruits in July-October. Polygonaceae Rumex acetosella L. Sorrel Kuzukulağı Ekşi kuzukulağı, Sorrel is perennial herbaceous The fields, Leaf lutka, ekşi kulak, plants with erect stem and meadows and The leaves with a lemony, eğşimene, ekşice, sprouts from an aggressive pastures in the tangy and nicely sour ekşimik, ekşilik and spreading rhizome. It has abandoned flavor, are used raw or in ekşimelek, ekşimek, glabrous green arrowhead- areas, at the the preparation of food. ekşimen, turşu otu, shaped leaves and small, pink waterfront and Fresh leaves can be used ebem ekşisi, and bright flowers. Sorrel in a humid raw in salads. Sorrel is ebenekşisi, oğlak blossoms in May-August. environment. also used to cook soup, kulağı, küçük pie and cooked with egg. kuzukulağı Roasted, stuffed, pie, soup, meal, salad Fabaceae Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. Cowpea Börülce Karnıkara,karagöz, Herbaceous annual with Cowpea grows grain, fresh Salad, meal sarıgöz, çakıldak, twining stems Leaves trifoliate best in hot legumes acebek, papuda with petiole. Central leaflet conditions. and hastate, 2.5 to 12 cm long, in moderate smooth, lateral leaflets shade, but in irregular. Flowers in axillary agroforestry or racemes on stalks 15 to 30 cm orchard long. Pod pendulous, smooth, applications. 10 to 23 cm long with a thick decurved beak and 10- to 15- seeded. The kidney-shaped seeds are white with a black mark around the scar that marks the point of attachment to the seed stalk. Seeds of local races variable in size and colour Russulaceae Lactarius deliciosus (L.) Gray Saffron milk Çıntar, Kanlıca, Elicek, ebişek, melki, Saffron milk cap has a convex It grows under Cap and stem Fried, grilled, roasted, cap merki, sütlü mantar, to vase shaped and carrot conifers on used in pie, cooked as çam mantarı, espir, orange color cap with darker acidic soils and meatball, soup, omelet espit, tirmit orange lines in the form of found in the concentric circles. 4 to 14 cm high altitude Salted or pickled across. The cap is dry but Pinus nigra sticky and viscid when wet. and Pinus It has crowded decurrent gills brutia forests. and a hallow short orange It forms a stipe (3 to 8 cm long and 1 to mycorrhizal 2 cm thick). When fresh it relationship extracts orange-red milk. with its host When handled It stains a deep tree. green color. August to December MEDITERRANEAN REGION Wild plants and land race studied in Mediterranean Region of Turkey English Photograph Turkish name Local Names Description Habitat Parts used The way to consume Family Botanical name name Acoraceae Acorus calamus L. Calamus or Eğir otu Azakeriği, Hazanbel, a semi-aquatic plant that likes It likes the The root Chewing rhizome. A Sweet flag Eğir kökü to grow with “wet feet”, often edges of (rhizome) is flavor for pipe tobacco alongside Irises, Cattails, and ponds, lakes, used as other waterweeds. This is and rivers, but medicine, as usually due to seasonal water I've seen it foods as a fluctuations. less rain, and it's growing in spice. no longer in the water because drier soil as the edge of the pond has well. receded. The leaves are similar to Cattail or Iris leaves, being sword shaped, and from 2 1/2 to 3 feet in length.