Nederlands: Bernagie - Komkommerkruid
Español: Borraja - Borraina
Français: Bourrache - Bourrache officinale
Deutsch: Borretsch - Boretsch - Gurkenkraut
Family: Boraginaceae - Forget-me-not family
Flowering time: March-autumn
Height: 20-60cm
Altitude: to 1100m
Colour: bright blue with a whitish centre, sometimes white or pink
Leaves: basal leaves oval to lanceolate, stalked, stem leaves smaller
Habitat: waste ground, waysides and cultivated land, often in rather dry sunny places
Distribution: native to Mediterranean Europe
Notes: Fowers half-nodding and rather star-shaped, with spreading pointed lobes and a prominent cone of purple-black stamens, borne in branched cymes. It is cultivated and used widely throughout Europe for its healing properties and culinary uses. Borage is cultivated on a field scale for its oil-rich seeds. It is naturalized in Great Britain, the Netherlands and France, but also in mediterranean countries where is is cultivated as well.
Related key words: Rotterdam, Botanische tuin Kralingen, Cádiar, Alpujarras
