Salicorne

The kind Salicornia , the salicornes , gathers about thirty species of halophilous plants pertaining to the family of the Chenopodiaceae , according to the traditional Classification, or of the Amaranthaceae , according to the phylogenetic classification.

Etymology: Latin words sal , horned salt and the horn.

This kind includes/understands many species of difficult determination: on the French coasts, one can quote in particular Salicornia europea , Salicornia emerici , Salicornia ramosissima , Salicornia disarticulata …

It is close to the kind Salsola (soda).

List species

According to ITIS:

Salicornia bigelovii Torr.
Salicornia borealis Wolf and Jefferies
Salicornia maritima Wolf and Jefferies
Salicornia will rubra A.Nels
Salicornia virginica L.

According to NCBI:

Salicornia bigelovii
Salicornia brachiata
Salicornia brachystachya
Salicornia removed pressure from
Salicornia disarticulata
Salicornia dolichostachya
Salicornia emerici
Salicornia europaea
Salicornia fragilis
Salicornia herbacea
Salicornia meyeriana
Salicornia will obscura
Salicornia pachystachya
Salicornia patula
Salicornia perennans
Salicornia pojarkovae
Salicornia procumbens
Salicornia prostrata
Salicornia ramosissima
Salicornia veneta
Salicornia X marshallii

According to GRIN:

Salicornia bigelovii Torr.
Salicornia removed pressure from Standl.
Salicornia europaea L.

Description

They are plants annual, low, fleshy, which grow on grounds rich in sea salt (Sodium chloride). They consist of cylindrical branches which seem articulated and are finished by a fertile ear. The sheets are reduced to opposite sheaths two to two.

One of them, Salicornia europaea L. is present in the moderate zones of all the continents. High of approximately 20 cm, it is widespread in France on all the maritime coasts and in Lorraine in the salted marshes (Dieuze, Morhange…). Its tender growths are edible. Crystallized in vinegar, they are consumed as out of work, or out of omelet or in the salad S. One can also prepare them like French beans.

One makes use of it still today to produce vegetable Soude, which was formerly used for the manufacture of the Savon and which enters still today the composition of the Savon of Alep.

Other common nouns: salicot, samphire. These plants do not have real economic importance. However, one finds some more often than formerly on the markets or in the fishmongers.

Remarks

The species Salicornia fruticosa or “coral of sea”, which can also consume same manner, from now on is classified in the close kind Sarcocornia . It thus names now Sarcocornia fruticosa .

Another close plant is the long-lived Salicorne ( Sarcocornia perennis ) which formed formerly part of the kind Salicornia .

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