Moluccella is a genus of annual and short-lived perennial plants native to Central and Southwestern Asia and the Mediterranean.[1] They are tall, upright, branched plants growing to 1 meter or more with toothed leaves and small white fragrant flowers.[2][3]
Marginally frost hardy, these plants prefer full sun and moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil. Propagation is from seed.
Moluccella laevis - MHNT Moluccella is a genus of annual and short-lived perennial plants native to Central and Southwestern Asia and the Mediterranean. They are tall, upright, branched plants growing to 1 meter or more with toothed leaves and small white fragrant flowers.
Species Moluccella aucheri (Boiss.) Scheen - Iran, Pakistan Moluccella bucharica (B.Fedtsch.) Ryding - Uzbekistan Moluccella fedtschenkoana (Kudr.) Ryding - Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Moluccella laevis L. - Bells of Ireland - Turkmenistan, Iran, Iraq, Caucasus, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey; naturalized in scattered locations in Europe, Africa, and North America Moluccella olgae (Regel) Ryding - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan Moluccella otostegioides Prain - Pakistan Moluccella sogdiana (Kudr.) Ryding - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan Moluccella spinosa L. - Mediterranean from Spain + Algeria to Turkey + Palestine
