RESEDAL. - MIGNOTTE
Scientific Description:
Annual to perennial herbs. Leaves entire, toothed or imparipinnatifid or-sect. Sepals 4−7, deciduous or persistent in fruit. Petals 4−10, divided into a distal laciniately lobed limb inserted dorsally near the apex of a basal, dilated claw (except for Reseda alba L. in which claw and limb are not distinct). Stamens 10−40 inserted on a dorsally enlarged disc. Ovary of 3 or 4 connate carpels, each with a stigmatic lobe or stigma. Seeds many, reniform, with or without a sinus.
Reference:
Coode MJE (1965). Reseda L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1: 499.
Public Description:
Reseda, known as “mignotte”, is distributed in the Mediterranean region, southwest Asia, Canary Islands, Iberia and northwest India. There are approximately 31 species in the world and 16 species ( 27 taxa) in Türkiye. Mignonette flowers are extremely fragrant and thus it is grown for the sweet scent of its flowers. It is to make perfumes and potpourri (dried fragrant flowers). It was used as a sedative and a treatment for bruises during the Roman period. Up to the first millennium BC yellow dye was obtained from the roots of “yellow mignotte (Reseda lutea L.)” and “yellow weld (Reseda luteola L.)”. The use of this dye was abandoned at the beginning of the 20th century, when cheaper synthetic yellow colors were used.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reseda_(plant) /,Accessed date: 21.05.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Resedaceae/Reseda// ,Accessed date: 21.05.2016.
Kanoğlu S S (2012). Reseda L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 787–788.
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