Editing Crambe (section)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{About|the plant genus|the English village|Crambe, North Yorkshire|other uses|Crambe (disambiguation)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Crambe_Maritima_Estonia.jpg
|image_caption = ''Crambe maritima'' in [[Estonia]]
|taxon = Crambe
|authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
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'''''Crambe''''' is a [[genus]] of [[annual plant|annual]] and [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[flowering plant]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] Brassicaceae, [[native plant|native]] to a variety of habitats in Europe, Turkey, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. They carry dense [[raceme]]s of tiny white or yellow flowers on (mostly leafless) stems above the basal leaves.<ref>{{cite book|title=RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants|year=2008|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-1405332965|pages=1136}}</ref> ''Crambe hispanica'' subsp. ''abyssinica'', formerly known as ''[[Crambe abyssinica]]'', is grown for the oil from the seeds that has characteristics similar to [[whale oil]].

The word "crambe" derives, via the Latin ''crambe'', from the Greek ''κράμβη'', a kind of cabbage.<ref>{{cite book|title=Shorter Oxford English dictionary, 6th ed.|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-0199206872|pages=3804}}</ref>

''Crambe'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of the weevil ''[[Lixus canescens]]'' ([[Coleoptera]])<ref>''Skuhrovec, J. & Volovnik, S.'' (2015) Biology and morphology of immature stages of ''Lixus canescens'' (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae). Zootaxa, 4033(3): 350-362.</ref> and some [[Lepidoptera]] species including the [[lime-speck pug]].